Quantum #58

It is my contention that The Force was nothing more than a zettascale HPC cluster. That trick with taking off the visor and dropping a bomb down an air duct. That wasn’t The Force. That was millions of simulations, continuously refined with data from previous drops and micro gravitational changes from nearby asteroids positions being used to pick the perfect release time. And then taking operator error out of the equation. No thanks Luke, better let the tech take care of this.

R2D2? Just the very latest in edge HPC connectivity to distribute The Force.

I mean come on, humas have spread out across the galaxy, are you relly telling me they didn’t have HPC powerful enough to do that? Of course they did. The Death Star, yea sure it had a planet destroying laser cannon but most of its volume was filled with liquid cooled 1GW server racks!

I know you won’t read this till later but I came up with it on May the 4^th 😁 . Happy Star Wars Day fellow HPC Jedis

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC. Nothing at zettascale yet but Azure Fleet is GA

HPC Cloud Updates WE 04 May 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Azure Compute Fleet is GA, Google and OCP plan for a 1MW rack.

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Tales of the Cloud’s demise may still be a little premature it seems with hyperscalers showing strong economic performance even in the face of a looming US recession. Google Cloud and Azure seem to be doing ok. Next Platform also think AWS might have a few more cards up their sleeve still to continue growing

Amazon Says It Can Embiggen AWS Past “Multi-$100 Billion” With AI

Here is how you know the cloud revolution is not done: Throughout the 77 quarter financial history of Amazon Web Services, which was formally launched in

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NVIDIA continues its domination in the AI/GPU space with Oracle deploying GB200s

Oracle Cloud Deploys NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

Nvidia said Oracle has stood up its first wave of liquid-cooled NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 racks in its data centers. NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs are now being deployed on NVIDIA DGX Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to develop .…

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IBM and TCS partner up (not a pairing I ever expected to be honest) to extend quantum computing in India

IBM Partners with TCS to Advance Quantum Computing in India

AMARAVATI, India, May 2, 2025 — IBM and Tata Consultancy Services are partnering to further develop India’s quantum computing industry as part of the State of Andhra Pradesh’s Quantum Valley […]

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