Quantum #46

I wasn’t completely sure you’d even get an issue of the newsletter this week. I’m supposedly on holiday which in itself wouldn’t prevent me sending this out, but I had planned to write it on Saturday evening after arriving at the ski resort with little else planned for that day except a 3 hour drive to get there.

Unfortunately, a couple of boulders that landed on the only road into and out of the region had different ideas about how I should spend my Saturday and virtually all of it was spent in the car instead. We travelled 10km in about 6 hours at one point.

In more fun news though we’re trying to get a logo done for HPC Club and we’d like your input. If you would be so kind as to go ahead and vote on this poll and/or just drop us some thoughts on what you liked best and why that would be great!

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In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 02 Feb 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Warning DeepSeek managed to sneak in here too.

Flux by HMx LabsPasha

I’ve talked a bit already this year about a diverse silicon future. Well Next Platform have a nice round up of CPU roadmaps for you if still feel you need to buy into and optimise for only one CPU architecture/ manufacturer. Their article on Intel’s roadmap is probably also worth a read if you’re currently stuck on Intel.

The Road Ahead For Datacenter Compute Engines: The CPUs

Updated with just-announced Intel roadmap changes. It is often said that companies – particularly large companies with enormous IT budgets – do not buy

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

Need more power for your supercomputer and data centres? How about some nuclear goodness to get those electrons moving?

Power Hungry: Google in Data Center Agreement for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

IT, like nature, hates a vacuum. Actually, in today’s world, IT is a virtual force of nature. IT’s enormous appetite for power is on a trajectory to strain grids everywhere, and in no IT sector is this more keenly felt than in HPC-AI, the home of generative AI, where insatiable power demand could hobble genAI […]

High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPCstaff

 Of course, we couldn’t round out this section without some reference to DeepSeek right? Don’t worry HPC Wire has you covered in what is quite an interesting take that also manages to weave in some HPC history.

https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/01/30/deepseek-week-what-almost-everyone-missed/

From HMx Labs

We’re holding AI generated code to the same standards as artisanal human crafted code right now. Does that make sense? What’s a sensible way to measure AI generated output?

Evaluating AI Written Code

We’ve usually defaulted to simple and limited metrics like line counts when evaluating code. Often shunning the hard work of a better method. Will AI force us to finally change?

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

And if we AI generate all our code with a few senior developers just running AI generation tools then where will our future developers come from?

AI: Where will developers come from?

In a world where AI writes all the code, how do we create new software developers?

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

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