Quantum #28

HPC and more recently AI in particular get a lot of flak, and justifiably so, for the quantity of resources they consume. So, we’re doing our little bit to make up for it by making sure we ensure our existing resources have a long useful life.

Extending the life of rather old Macbooks by using them for Scratch club 😊 

Before anyone worries about insecure operating systems, not only do my kids get to learn to code using great Apple hardware, it’s also running Linux Mint! Ah the perils of having a geeky dad 🤣

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 22 Sep 2024

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners

Flux by HMx LabsPasha

Will we finally get off the AI hype cycle now?

Is the GenAI Bubble Finally Popping?

Doubt is creeping into discussion over generative AI, as industry analysts begin to publicly question whether the huge investments in GenAI will ever pay off. The lack of a “killer […]

HPCwireDoug Eadline

The growing power and cooling demands of AI

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admitted GPT-4 “kind of sucks,” and now we learn the AI model consumes up to 3 water bottles to generate a mere 100 words

OpenAI’s GPT-4 model consumes enough water to quench your thirst for a day to generate 100 words.

Windows CentralKevin Okemwa

From HMx Labs

I want observability in my HPC clusters. Whatcha got?

Observability in HPC

If you can’t see what’s going on, what hope do you have to controlling it?

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

What are the reasons for differentiation in HPC in FSI?

Differences in FSI HPC Architectures

Most financial risk system looks more or less the same? What about when they don’t? You might think there are great fundamental reasons for these. Good reasons for why these variances exist. But you’d be wrong.

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

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