Quantum #48

If you’ve been craving your weekly HPC news fix and missed it last week I’m very sorry. I was engaged in an epic battle of Lilliputian proportions with Streptococcus Pneumoniae, and it had me bested for some time. We are into the closing stages of the conflict and it feels like I have it on the run with a new weapon: Co-Amox.

It had been a rather busy week for us at HMx Labs prior to that though. Firstly, we’re hiring! Details below and more of an update on the whole hiring process to come. Some really interesting observations from that.

Secondly, we set a date for the second HPC Club meetup. 12^th March. Be there or have slow failing tasks! We even have a theme: 

Tell me if this sounds familiar. A part of the business owns a not insignificant number of GPUs. Ok its quite a lot of GPUs. They’re heavily utilised, but only within certain (normally well defined) time windows. Outside of those time periods they sit idle. There is no way they are about to be shared if there’s the slightest risk of them not being available when needed. Read the rest in the link below. Or just go right ahead and sign up here:

HPC Club #2

The second HPC Club meetup. All things HPC and AI with guest speaker from Red Oak Consulting

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In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 23 Feb 2025 & WE 16 Feb 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. GB200s from Google, Dv6 from Azure and more.

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Next Platform have the beginning of something here in their comparison of price per teraflop of FP64 compute that I’ve been wanting to do for a while

Sizing Up Compute Engines For HPC Work At 64-Bit Precision

If you want a CPU that has the floating point performance of a GPU, all you have to do is wait six or so years and the CPU roadmaps can catch up. This

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

Microsoft have been smoking the Hype Pipe again, I guess not to bested by Google with Willow they invented a whole new state of matter. Except they didn’t. It’s a quantum state of an existing state of matter. Still its potentially good news I guess if you’re a buyer of a quantum computing future. Oh and it still needs to operate in the millikelvin temperature range, not that you’d guess that with the pictures that are shared.

Toward 1M Qubits? Microsoft Quantum Chip Is Based on ‘New State of Matter’ - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

Microsoft today said its new quantum chip is the first to be powered by a new Topological Core architecture that “will realize quantum computers capable of solving meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years .…

High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPCDoug Black

From HMx Labs

We’re hiring again. A junior engineer this time. Know anyone that fits the bill? Let me know!

Hiring: Junior Engineer

We’re hiring a junior engineer, ideally with HPC and/or financial services experience. Want to come work at HMx Labs?

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The next HPC Club event is a go! 12^th March, be there or be slow!

HPC Club – 12 March

The second HPC Club meetup. 12 March @ Notes, Crossrail Place, Canary Wharf, London

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GPUs: Can you share yours?

A little more flavour on the headline topics for the next HPC Club event on the 12th of March. The intersection of HPC and AI and sharing infrastructure.

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