Faster HPC on Bare Metal or in the Cloud?
What’s faster cloud virtual machines or bare metal? The answer may surprise you. It certainly surprised me.
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Quantum #75
Issue #75 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Downill mountain bikes, CPUs and white papers on financial services HPC optimisation.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 31 Aug 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. AWS have some new EC2 instance types…
Quantum #74
Issue #X74 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. HPC Club Bristol details confirmed. NVIDIA building out faster DC interconnects and Japanese supercomputers.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 24 Aug 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. New Intel VM family on AWS and how to check your GPU VMs actually work before doing any real work with them.
HPC’s Biggest Problem Today?
Let’s talk about what’s frustrating you today instead of what’s on the horizon for once.
HPC Club: Isambard-AI
HPC Club @ The Forge in Bristol, about Isambard-AI, the UK’s fastest supercomputer from the man himself, Simon McIntosh-Smith.
Quantum #73
Issue #73 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Alpine coasters (but not in the Alps), HPC Club and heterogeneous HPC.