Quantum #29

I finally got around to sorting some of the thousand or so pictures I took during the last race weekend at Donington Park. Here’s a little collage of Shiraz from the Race 1 as he made is way up from near the back of the grid to leading the race!

HPC related news is like buses. Some weeks there’s nothing and other weeks 5 come along at once. Lots of updates worth checking out from both AWS and Azure this week so be sure to read the HPC Cloud Updates if you use either of those platforms.

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 29 Sep 2024

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

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Could Intel finally have a competitive CPU again?

Granite Rapids HPC Benchmarks: I’m Thinking Intel Is Back (Updated)

Waiting is the hardest part. In the fall of 2023, HPCwire wrote about the new diverging Xeon processor strategy from Intel. Instead of a on-size-fits all approach; Intel has opted for Xeons built with two different goals in mind. The first is Sierra Forest, based on E-cores that are enhanced to deliver density-optimized compute in […]

HPCwireDoug Eadline

ARM is, as ever, coming up fast at the back of pack. New Graviton powered instance releases this week too from AWS

Arm saves cost and power for EDA with HPE RL300 Gen11

In this blog post, Arm IT shares how it has saved money, space, and power by deploying HPE RL300 Gen11 servers for its EDA workloads.

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From HMx Labs

HPC using print queues and WordPress? Sounds amazing!

WordPress Feuds, CUPS and HPC

What does the WordPress feud and the a 9.9 CVE in Linux have to do with HPC?

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A short (hot) take on the cloud migrations and repatriation in the context of portability and lock in.

Cloud Migrations and Repatriations

Are enterprises flocking to the cloud or running away from it?

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