Quantum #25

Issue #25 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs.

Quantum #25

HPC = High Performance Cooking

I’m back to working from our London office again, the little European junket is over. We had some family round to catch up after having been away for a while and I was on bbq duty. I had to cheat.

I blame the fact that we didn’t have any charcoal lighters and that our fire pit was a poor barbecue substitute, not letting air in from under the charcoal. Yea I’m clutching at straws! I’ll do better next time.

Also, I will catch up with those of you I was supposed to arrange meetings with before taking off over the next week or two. Coffee’s on me.


In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 01 Sep 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners

Google have launched a memory store for ValKey. Might be time to sell those Redis shares…and also start planning to swap out Redis  for ValKey

Announcing Memorystore for Valkey | Google Cloud Blog
Support for Valkey 7.2 in Memorystore provides a high-performance data management solutions based on an open-source key-value service.

MLPerf v4,1 Benchmark. Maybe we need to incorporate this into our available benchmarks…

Nvidia, AMD, Intel and Google Debut Chips in MLPerf Inference Benchmark for GenAI - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC
Today, MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v4.1 benchmark suite, which delivers machine learning (ML) system performance benchmarking in an architecture-neutral, representative, and .…

My old university, Southampton, has a new HPE supercomputer built in AMD CPUs

HPE Delivers Energy-Efficient Iridis 6 HPC System to University of Southampton
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Aug. 29, 2024 — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced that it has built a sixth generation high-performance computing cluster, Iridis 6, for the University of Southampton, one […]

From HMx Labs

We took a quick peek at AWS’ latest HPC offering

AWS Parallel Computing Service
Amazon releases a managed Slurm based HPC service.

CERN really does some amazing stuff…

Call That Big Data?
Think you deal with big data? Nah. This is big data!