Quantum #45

This week feels more like AI news than HPC news, but then it has a been a week where not only the tech news has been dominated by AI but all news. Poor little old school HPC is finding it hard to get a look in anywhere! More details below on Project Stargate and its increasingly inadequate UK counterpart, your usual HPC related cloud release notes and some takes from yours truly on silicon diversity and AI generated code.

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 26 Jan 2025

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

Flux by HMx LabsPasha

I’ve never really been sold on the idea of serverless HPC personally but if you’d like an introduction to the concept this article does a pretty good job

Revolutionizing HPC with Serverless Computing - Cloud Dailywire

High-Performance Computing (HPC) has traditionally been associated with specialized clusters of powerful servers, complex scheduling systems, and rigorous performance optimizations. Over the years, HPC has been a driving force behind groundbreaking research in physics, genomics, climate science, financial modeling, and more. Today, however, we find ourselves at an interesting crossroads: serverless computing has come of

Cloud Dailywire - Demystify the cloud.Greg Leonardo

I don’t know if it counts as a supercomputer (and there’s a really interesting discussion to be had about what future supercomputers will look like) but this has to be largest budget for building compute so I’m going to include it here on the off chance you somehow missed this news

White House Announces $500B AI Data Center Infrastructure Build-Out - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

The Trump Administration ended its first full day of business with a major AI business announcement, that hundreds of billions of dollars – potentially trillions of dollars – will be invested in the build-out of AI infrastructure and data centers in the U.S. Joining President Trump at a White House press event late this afternoon […]

High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPCstaff

This was last week but amongst the outcomes from it is that we may indeed get another supercomputer in the UK after all (despite it being cancelled by the same incoming government only months ago)

AI Opportunities Action Plan: government response

GOV.UKDepartment for Science, Innovation and Technology

Brad McCredie likes fast cars and HPC, how can I not share this one!

Brad McCredie Is The Pedal To AMD’s Datacenter GPU Metal

Brad McCredie like engines, and more importantly, he likes to make them go fast. His love of Dodge Challengers – he has multiple ones, including a Hellcat

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

From HMx Labs

Lets talk diversity

Diversity in HPC

Will 2025 be the year in which supercomputers are no longer homogenous?

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

Code is a liability. Unless its written by an AI apparently. Then it doesn’t matter and no one cares

Code is a Liability

In a world where LLM generated code replaces SaaS, how many lines of code will we have and who will maintain them?

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

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