HPC Cloud Updates WE 30 Nov 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Unsurprisingly, given the huge number of updates last week, it’s a pretty quiet week but we do have an interesting capacity reservation feature and a new VM platform…
AWS
I wasn’t going to include this one, but it mentions AI and quantum so the sheer hype factor present in something talking about PCS means it must be worth reading right 😁
How Aionics accelerates chemical formulation and discovery with AWS Parallel Computing Service | Amazon Web Services
This post was contributed by Mohamed K. Elshazly, PhD, Kareem Abdol-Hamid, Sam Bydlon, PhD, Aarabhi Achanta, and Mark Azadpour The decarbonization of our modern economy depends on solving a defining scientific challenge: developing batteries that are both sustainable and high performing. From electrical grids to vehicles and aviation, these energy storage devices must provide power […]
This is looks very interesting. Does this now provide a way to share what would have been exclusively grid/HPC capacity under a single scheduler with another workload?
Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations - AWS
Discover more about what’s new at AWS with Amazon EC2 announces interruptible Capacity Reservations
Azure
A new VM GPU platform based on Nvidia Blackwell GPUs and Intel Granite Rapids CPUs
Azure NCv6 Public Preview: The new Unified Platform for Converged AI and Visual Computing | Microsoft Community Hub
As enterprises accelerate adoption of physical AI (AI models interacting with real-world physics), digital twins (virtual replicas of physical systems), LLM…
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Google Cloud
130,000 node K8 cluster.. ok now we really are getting to HPC scale…
How we built a 130,000-node GKE cluster | Google Cloud Blog
Learn about the architectural innovations we used to build a 130,000-node Kubernetes cluster, and the trends driving demand for these environments.
