HPC Cloud Updates WE 15 Feb 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. M8azn VMs from AWS, some ideas on observability from Azure and a bunch of VMs made available in new regions in AWS.
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Ingredients of a Benchmark
How would you go about creating a single representative benchmark for all your different workloads. This isn’t a rhetorical question where I give you the answer at the end. I’m genuinely asking!
Founder’s Dilemma
What do you do when your job outgrows your own capabilities?
Quantum #98
Issue #98 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Intel gives us Z-Angle RAM, AMD makes more money on GPUs than CPUs, we get Xeon 6 disk optimised VMs from AWS
HPC Cloud Updates WE 08 Feb 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Disk optimised Intel Xeon 6 VMs from AWS and a new region coming in Thailand from Azure
HAL Update: Data Plane Specification
A small update on our AI first coding experiment and an opportunity for you to provide input on what a HPC focused data plane should look like
Improving Utilisation in HPC & AI – Part 5
Part 5 of this mini series in improving utilisation and reducing costs looks at defragmenting elastic capacity.
Quantum #97
Issue #97 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs.We got some new (CPU only) VMs from Azure and Google last week, a new inference chip from Microsoft in the Maia 200, Cambridge gets £36m to build the next UK supercomputer as the cloud becomes more prevalent.