Quantum #59

Want to learn about HPC and supercomputing while you read a deliberately anachronistic mashup of Frankenstein and Terminator? Of course you do! Well it just so happened I felt nutty enough to oblige.

Chapter 1: The Limits of One

An introduction to supercomputing and high performance computing broken down into a series of posts, perhaps eventually compiled into a book in the future depending on how well this little experiment goes. This first chapter attempts to define what a supercomputer or HPC is.

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I’m still working on the subsequent chapters, but it occurs to me that perhaps I might need a co-author for some parts, such as MPI. Any takers? 

What’s that? You just want to know what happened in HPC last week? See below 😁

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 11 May 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Quiet week, AWS FSx available in a few more places, faster SSDs in more regions on Azure and that’s your lot.

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Not really HPC this, but if you run HPC, or anything else, in the cloud then it’s worth watching closely. Gives a whole new level of importance to bring your own key

Do You Own Your Cloud Data? Third-Party Doctrine Says No

Your data is yours, right? It seems like a simple question, but thanks to a little-known loophole in federal law, US regulators are can access your private data without a […]

HPCwireDoug Eadline

Cisco showcase quantum networking

Cisco Pulls Together A Quantum Network Architecture

For decades, discussions around quantum computing has felt similar to family driving vacations, with someone in the back seat constantly asking “are we

The Next PlatformJeffrey Burt

From HMx Labs

Why am I talking about old school tech? It’s the potential!

Schedulers are Boring Dino-Tech

A short rant about why schedulers aren’t boring but also about so much that is missing from them and how much better they could be.

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I’ve already plugged this up above but here’s a different picture and another plug for it

Want to Read a Book about Supercomputers?

Want to read a book about HPC? Want to give me some feedback too?

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