Quantum #27

Issue #27 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs.

Quantum #27

I was at Donington Park yesterday with Khanage Racing for round 6 of the Porsche Club championship. Shiraz qualified in P3 but some smoke from the car and a tiny mistake meant even though he took the lead in the first lap of Race 1 he dropped down the grid. 

Rain rolled in before the second race and some logistical problems meant by the time  wet wheels were on the car it he was starting from the pits at the back of the grid. Despite being 10 seconds behind the back of the grid though Shiraz managed to claw his way back up to a P4 finish! Now that’s some driving!

I took my DLSR with me this time. I had forgotten how good (albeit large and heavy!) a real camera is! Few more pictures just for fun at the end.


In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 15 Sep 2024
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners

It’s behind an incredibly annoying data collection form but has input from Google Cloud and NVIDIA HPC experts and includes some insight into Slurm GCP.

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Zettascale HPC? Oracle wants to build one with NVIDIA H200s

Oracle Announces Zettascale Cloud Supercomputing Cluster with 131,000 Nvidia Blackwells - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC
Oracle today announced what it said is the first zettascale cloud HPC cluster, powered by Nvidia’s forthcoming Blackwell GPUs, scheduled for shipment in the first half of 2025. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure will be available with up to 131,072 Blackwells delivering 2.4 zettaFLOPS of peak performance, according to Oracle. The company said this offers more than […]

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