We’ve been busy this week getting the first meet (and website) for HPC CLUB off the ground. If somehow this has passed you by, mark your calendars. 27^th November in Canary Wharf. More details below.

I’m also exploring a couple of new ideas on how to make our expertise available more widely. 

I’ve always been, and will continue to be, happy to meet up for a quick call or a coffee and talk about anything HPC. Trouble is, it can be a bit limiting. A lack of NDAs, limitations in time and what data we can provide both make it less than ideal if all you need is some advice but don’t want to buy months of consultancy. 

I’m thinking some kind of mashup between a retainer and fractional expert model which gets access to our time, benchmarking data and tooling for say six months to a year but without having to pay for an engineer full time.

What do you think? Solving a real problem here or just creating an intractable headache for myself with your procurement department? 😕

In The News

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Not strictly speaking HPC but if, like us you use some LLMs then this is useful read that will hopefully just be confirming what you already know but worth bearing in mind if you didn’t.

Can Large Language Models Reason?

What should we believe about the reasoning abilities of today’s large language models? As the headlines above illustrate, there’s a debate raging over whether these enormous pre-trained neural networks have achieved humanlike reasoning abilities, or whether their skills are in fact “a mirage.”

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From HMx Labs

HPC CLUB is on! 27^th November in Canary Wharf. Be there or be compute limited 😄

HPC Club – 27 November

Inaugural meeting of HPC Club on the 27th November in Canary Wharf

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What does the announcement of the new x86 Ecosystem by Intel and AMD mean for financial risk systems?

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