Quantum #51

Another week, another issue of your weekly HPC newsletter, but also another successful HPC Club event. The few people I’ve chatted to so far spoke highly of the event, and I’d love your feedback too. Liked it or hated it, let us know so we can improve things for the next one. We can’t call this a HPC community driven club if we don’t hear back from the community after all!

There are so many of you I didn’t get a chance to speak to and more than a few interesting topics of conversation. I think I might start a new series: “Tales from HPC Club” recounting some of the most interesting bits I heard. Possibly at the risk of no one ever speaking to me at a future event again though 😆

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 16 Mar 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Try before you buy HPC, AWS Batch with multiple containers. Yes have those in here.

Flux by HMx LabsPasha

Mostly about CoreWeave and OpenAI but has some interesting insights. Particularly the utilisation. I’d love some more general insight on the utilisation levels of hypersalcers! Anyone want to share?

What A Tangled OpenAI Web We CoreWeave

Wouldn’t it be funny if all of that money that Microsoft spent last year paying neocloud upstart CoreWeave was just to support ever-embiggening AI

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

Is quantum computing actually useful for anything yet? D Wave thinks so. Others disagree. I have to admit I barely understand the use case being discussed and am a long way from being able to hold an opinion on the utility of quantum computing in this particular domain… However, I’ve had more than a few conversations recently about quantum computing and with people I didn’t expect to be interested at all. So now I’m curious, who out there is actually looking at quantum and thinking: Can I use this?

https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/03/13/d-wave-reports-quantum-supremacy-stirs-immediate-challenge-and-rebuttal/

From HMx Labs

It’s been a while since we publicly shared any COREx benchmark results. We thought it was about time that it escaped the confines of the skunkworks for a bit and had an opportunity to strut its stuff

Azure Dv6 VM Family Performance & Cost Comparison

A look at the performance and cost of Azure’s new Dv6 VM series and compared to previous Dv5 and Dv4 families.

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

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