Quantum #55

Avoid dust bunnies and allergies. Use the cloud!

We’re a bit unusual at HMx Labs in that we choose to run our own hardware on our own premises. While there’s still an outside chance this may turn out to be a brilliant strategic move (given global geopolitical tensions) in the mean time, it means we have to deal with dust bunnies and re-racking machines to make space. Which I started on yesterday… Heads up, we might have some downtime on hmxlabs.io and cloudhpc.news over the Easter weekend.

Oh you want the real HPC news? That’s down below 😁

In The News

All the HPC bits from Google Cloud Next and of course other cloud updates too right here:

HPC Cloud Updates WE 13 Apr 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. News from Google Cloud Next and rather a lot of new EC2 instance types in various locations.

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And here is a more in depth take on Google’s latest from Next Platform with details and benchmarks on the new H4D.

Google Woos HPC Centers With Fast CPUs And Networks

The HPC centers of the world like fast networks and compute, but they are also always working under budget constraints unlike their AI peers out there in

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

and one from HPC Wire with a different slant which is also worth reading:

Google Cloud Flexes Its HPC Muscle at Next 2025

Google Cloud rolled out several new cloud capabilities at its Next 2025 conference this week that will appeal to HPC users, including the launch of Cluster Director, new Slurm capabilities, […]

HPCwireAlex Woodie

The HPC Market is set to be worth $100B by 2028… oh but only if you roll AI and Quantum into that too. Seems like HPC is firmly sat on the tails of AI at this point and won’t be dislodged till AI falls off its pedestal.

Hyperion: HPC-AI Market Grew 23.5% in 2024, to Exceed $100B by 2028 - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

HPC-AI industry analyst firm Hyperion Research announced today its latest market tracking for the technical computing HPC/AI/quantum computing market for 2024 shows the highest annual growth in decades.

High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPCstaff

Intel’s new CEO is asking for feedback. If your HPC estate relies on Intel now might be a good time to have a chat to your friendly rep and start asking for what you need next

Have It Your Way: Lip-Bu Tan Intel Vision Keynote

Imagine getting a new job and being told, “You have to give a presentation in two weeks to our customers and partners about how we can do better. Oh, and […]

HPCwireDoug Eadline

From HMx Labs

It’s funny how HPC can be quite specialised niche yet at the same time be so broad

HPC is a Broad Niche

Whilst HPC is generally considered to be a niche part of computing, it is one that is incredibly broad and cuts across many disciplines.

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Why does AI Inference not share the same scheduler as AI training?

AI Inferences vs Realtime Trading Risk

If overnight and real-time risk can share the same resources and scheduler, why can’t AI training and inference workloads?

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