Quantum #32

HPC = High Performance Community, Intel and AMD join forces, and I fail to engage Founder Mode.

The biggest news last week has to be Intel and AMD teaming up to take the fight to ARM and forming the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group. More on that below but by some happy coincidence I happened to be sitting at lunch with the CTO of Intel, Greg Lavender, the day after the announcement! Do I have some amazing insights for you? Not a jot. And that dear reader is why you should continue to trust a real journalist for your tech news 😆

I’m genuinely, but very positively, surprised at the level of interest in a HPC community event. Not only from people in London, but all around the world it seems. It is definitely far beyond our capabilities to extend these worldwide but I wonder if there’s value in some form of virtual community around this also? But don’t we already have that in various forms on LinkedIn, StackOverflow and elsewhere? Perhaps some kind of federated model with people organising events local to them?

In any case given the enthusiasm I thought I’d try and get a jump on things, founder mode engaged! Only to have it well and truly interrupted by my kids and family all weekend, so all I’ve really managed to do is register a domain and setup an email address 😩 

You’ll be glad to know though that I have delegated organising the first event and we’re aiming for something in the last week of November in Canary Wharf. Watch this space.

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 20 Oct 2024

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

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Intel and AMD form the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group.

Hell Freezes Over as AMD and Intel Come Together for x86

Hell freezes over as AMD and Intel come together at OCP Summit 2024 to jointly drive the future x86 ISA through an industry advisory board

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What has Exascale given us beyond bragging rights and heating up the planet?

Exascale Day 2024: How Supercomputing at a Billion Billion Calculations Per Second Is Changing the World - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

The Exascale Era began in spring 2022 when the Top500 list certified that the HPE-AMD Frontier supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory had broken through the exascale computing barrier. And with the Intel-HPE Aurora system at Argonne National Laboratory confirmed by Top500 last spring, the U.S. now has two exascale-class systems – with a third, […]

High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPCstaff

A common theme over the last couple of weeks in my conversations has been data in HPC so this announcement caught my eye. Unified compute and data orchestration? Yes please.

Hammerspace and Parallel Works Unveil Unified Compute and Data Orchestration for Hybrid and Multi-Cloud HPC and AI Workloads

SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 14, 2024 — Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the next data cycle, and Parallel Works, provider of the ACTIVATE control plane for AI and HPC resources, have unveiled […]

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From HMx Labs

In case you have no idea what I was referring to above, you’ll need to read this:

Announcing HPC Club

The first rule of HPC Club is: you do not talk about HPC Club

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Reading cloud release notes

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