Quantum #40

Apologies for the delay in this week’s newsletter, even copying and pasting a few links can be a bit too much sometimes when you’re trying to do it chocked up on painkillers 😫

Nothing particularly exciting to report from the last week though. Guess we’re into a solid post SC, post re:Invent, post CIUK lull at this point. 

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 15 Dec 2024

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

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SchedMD releases SLURM 24.11

What Slurm 24.11 Brings to the Table - SchedMD

Slurm 24.11 is the latest update from SchedMD. This release builds on the new six-month cycle, enhancing Slurm’s best features.

SchedMDVictoria Hobson

Might need Google Translate (other apps are available) for this one but it illustrates using the elasticity of cloud to complete workloads in much shorter time frames

Comment l’Institut Pasteur a traité 20 pétaoctets de données ADN en 30 heures

L'Institut Pasteur s'est appuyé sur le portefeuille de solutions d'AWS, notamment en utilisant Batch sur un cluster de 2,18 millions de cœurs...-Cloud

Usine DigitaleCélia Séramour

Not strictly HPC but some fun silicon failures

The Art of Failure Analysis 2024

Searching for defects in their chips, these engineers found something inspiring

IEEE SpectrumKohava Mendelsohn

From HMx Labs

Want to cut through the hype and see how good ChatGPT’s latest model o1 really is? Here’s a little experiment to answer that

How Good is GPT o1 really?

I pitted OpenAi’s latest and greatest o1 model against little ol me. Guess who won.

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A little look at the importance, and lack, of UX in HPC

The HPC Experience

A look at the relative absence but importance of UX, UI and observability in HPC

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and we’re still looking to fill this role

We’re Hiring: HPC Engineer

HMx Labs is looking for a HPC Engineer.

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