Quantum #91
Issue #91 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Things don’t appear to have slowed down for the holiday season at all, the news is mostly dominated by all things Slurm.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 21 Dec 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. It might be the week before Christmas but it doesn’t look like anyone is slowing down! Google gives us an alternative to PCS, we have some new VMs from AWS and Azure NetApp gets some upgrades.
Can AI Tell You If You’re Reinventing the Wheel?
Is our AI code assistant quietly telling us more than just what the next line of code should be?
Nvidia Drinks (Acquires) Slurm
Some thoughts and questions on what Nvidia’s acquisition of Slurm means for both AI and traditional HPC.
Quantum #90
Issue #90 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. A little light on the HPC this week but if you like getting worked up over FP64 support or small form factor devices to run LLM inferencing locally you’ll be happy.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 14 Dec 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. As expected fairly quiet this week
2025 Wrapped: AI Edition
At the start of this year, I shared a few (non-exhaustive) ideas about how I thought AI would change things during the course of 2025. Shall we see how much I got wrong?
Comparing Cloud VM Performance Across Architectures Part 2
3 Clouds, 3 CPUs, 3,000 Hours of Benchmarks. A different look at the results.