Quantum #44

Well, we’re definitely well into the swing of things again for 2025. I’m not sure about HPC but the AI news seems to be dominating things even more than usual. At least it includes the AI infrastructure side (HPC’s better looking younger sister) and not just LLM talk though.

Speaking of AI, I figured I’d share some thoughts of my own. I can hear the cries of “stay in your lane Hamza!” already 🤣 but hey isn’t that the point of having our own newsletter. I still don’t think we have the existential threat scenario of AI but I think we have plenty of other very real things to adapt to and worry about which are already a reality. And that’s without opening the pandora’s box that is AI Ethics which I feel very unqualified to comment on. Start with Stochastic Parrots for that.

Thoughts on AI for 2025

I am in the fun position not only of using AI as engineer but also need to making hiring decisions in the face of tools such as Cursor and Devin. I thought I’d share some thoughts.

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And bringing things back to HPC and the present a little, if you haven’t already seen the post about writing a scheduler selection tool, take a look at the link below. We need your input please.

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 19 Jan 2025

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

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CoreWeave and IBM partner to build a new supercomputer

CoreWeave Partners with IBM to Deliver New AI Supercomputer for IBM Granite Models

CoreWeave, the AI Hyperscaler™, announced its plans to deliver one of the first NVIDIA GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip-enabled AI supercomputers to IBM, equipped with NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems, interconnected with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking.

IBM Newsroom

This is quite an interesting take on the relative merits not only of cloud vs on prem but to the extent of on prem supercomputers

The Battle Begins For AI Inference Compute In The Datacenter

The major cloud builders and their hyperscaler brethren – in many cases, one company acts like both a cloud and a hyperscaler – have made their technology

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

The High Performance Software Foundation has announced its first conference

HPSF Conference | LF Events

Inaugural HPSF Conference hosted by the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF) where the brightest minds in high performance software come together.

LF Events

From HMx Labs

Want to help create a tool to select a HPC scheduler? Give me a shout.

Too Many Schedulers, Not Enough Patience

Need to pick a HPC scheduler? Want to collaborate on a tool to help you?

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Let’s get AI to train new AIs to take over the world!

AI Optimised HPC

What would it take to use AI, itself created by HPC, to optimise HPC

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