Quantum #47

I feel like you, dear reader, should be providing me with an update this week 😄 I am back in front of my desk on a rainy London Monday morning after a week with nothing but blue skies and white snow.

 Whilst I accept I may not have been following events in the HPC world as closely, even looking back it seems like it’s been a quiet week? Scouring over the  week’s news, even the hyper-scalers haven’t released much, and the usual HPC news outlets had little that piqued my interest.

 Even the Bsky HPC community seems to need a little revival. All the better then, I guess, that we’ve finally set a date for the next HPC club. Details below!

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 09 Feb 2025

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

Flux by HMx LabsPasha

Focuses on the financials of ARM but this is quite an interesting insight into the direction of CPUs in the data centre too.

How Much Money Does Arm Make In The Datacenter?

As we have been saying for quite some time, when it comes to datacenter CPUs, we think that homegrown Arm processors (as well as those made by

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

I’ll admit I didn’t read the whole thing (it’s quite long) but part 5 (What about good old HPC) is definitely worth a read. It was interesting to read that any of the hyperscalers could theoretically post a higher score than El-Capitan to claim the supercomputing crown. Not because I’m surprised, but rather that this has been true for years. I worked at a number of financial institutions in the past that could have easily claimed the SC crown should they have wished to be public about their compute capabilities. 

https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/01/28/five-big-questions-for-hpc-ai-in-2025/

(In case you were wondering, for some reason HPC Wire won't allow by blog platform to read its site to generate pretty links any more)

From HMx Labs

HPC Club is go. 

HPC Club #2

We have a date. We have a venue. HPC Club #2 is cleared for launch.

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Do we need a fruity moment for HPC?

HPC’s Apple Moment

HPC needs its products to be more usable, directly, by the end users without needing HPC experts to run the compute.

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