Quantum #60

Good morning, it’s pretty grey and miserable outside (here in London anyway) as I write this, but I have some fun updates. Firstly, tickets for HPC Club are now available. But probably won’t be for much longer given the rate they’ve been disappearing at! I’m really excited about this one and it seems a few of you are too. More details down below if you don’t have a ticket yet.

I’ve never run a panel discussion before, anyone got any tips? Or just want to do it for me? 😆 😟

Secondly, over the last couple of days  (yes over the weekend) I’ve been playing with AMD’s latest Turin CPUs. Full details to come later once we actually run our usual more rigorous benchmarking but so far it looks like the team over at AMD have been eating their Weetabix!

We’re definitely getting closer to ISC. I can just feel the HPC news tailing off as people hold things for release in a few weeks time

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 18 May 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Meaningful update to AWS PCS, more fast disk and carbon optimisation from Azure and some Hypercomputer updates from Google.

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This was super interesting. Coming from a world where you’re constantly optimising and scavenging for more capacity, watching AI build supercomputers as though capacity is free was… shall we say interesting. Here’s a great take on some of that

AI Is Challenging the Old Efficiency Rules

Jonathan Koomey’s take on AI’s rising power demands, the limits of computing efficiency, and whether Koomey’s Law still holds in the era of synthetic data and grid constraints.

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Some thought provoking takes on the future of HPC (in the US) from Jack Dongarra

Dongarra: Challenges to High-Performance Computing Threaten US innovation

Jack Dongarra recently wrote an article for The Conversation speaking about HPC progress and the challenges to US innovation. Dongarra is a pioneer in HPC and an A.M. Turing Award Laureate. His design and implementation of many open-source numerical libraries, including EISPACK, LINPACK, BLAS, LAPACK, and ScaLAPACK has been instrumental for moving HPC foward. He […]

HPCwireDoug Eadline

I won’t pretend to understand geopolitics but even I can see there are some weird power dynamics about to play out in the not too distant future

Saudi Arabia Has The Wealth – And Desire – To Become An AI Player

The oil barons of the Middle East have been trying to diversify out of carbon fuels and into other parts of the global economy for decades, but artificial

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

From HMx Labs

HPC Club #3 is now live:

HPC Club #3 Future of Schedulers: Book Your Spot

Join five eminent experts and leaders in HPC schedulers at HPC Club to hear what they’re thinking, get answers to your questions and make sure they know what you need.

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What sets apart HPC from distributed systems?

Supercomputer or distributed services?

Are financial risk systems HPC (ok HTC) systems? Are they distributed services? They’re usually both.

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