Quantum #63

As I write this on Sunday, and surely by the time most of you will be reading it on Monday, many of you will either be in transit for ISC or already in Hamburg.

There are a couple of interesting things I wanted to pick up on that were in the news over the last week that aren’t ISC related though. Firstly, there was much backslapping on AWS dropping prices on its NVIDIA GPU EC2 instances. This is all being pinned on the wonderful economies of scale that AWS has. Right. Fancy sharing your utilisation or demand? Neoclouds proving to be a thorn in your side perchance? Of course not, it is purely out the goodness of Andy and Matt’s hearts that they’re choosing to pass on discounts right now. Got it. Are there any real tech journalists left out there at this point at all?

The second is the article by Addison Snell about AI and HPC (link below). I’ve never had the hard data to share like Addison does, but this is a topic I’ve hesitated to write about for some time. Touching on it at the edges every now and again but never really delving in to it. Not only from an AI perspective but also from a financial services perspective which he touches on but doesn’t go in to. Writing about it from my anecdotal perspective seems rather riskier than the factual approach taken here by HPC Wire. Maybe I’ll write it anyway and bury it under the mountain of news that will be released during ISC this week.

Oh, for the avoidance of any doubt, the image is AI generated. I’m currently sat in London

In The News

Dropped GPU prices, cloud sovereignty and a new region

HPC Cloud Updates WE 08 Jun 2025

AWS The new Taipei region is now live Now open – AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region | Amazon Web ServicesToday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that AWS Asia Pacific (Taipei) Region is generally available with three Availability Zones and Region code ap-east-2. The new Region brings AWS infrastructure and services closer to

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

Can’t very well not include what to watch for at ISC25 in this issue

ISC 2025: HPC and AI Luminaries on Trends to Watch in Hamburg Next Week - High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC

The center of the HPC-AI world shifts next week to Hamburg and the ISC 2025 Conference. This is the 40th ISC, and conference organizers expect a healthy increase in the number of exhibitors at this year’s event.

High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPCstaff

Will HPC survive AI?

HPC Finally Found Its Killer App – Can It Survive?

Where We Are: On June 3, Intersect360 Research released our most recent market numbers for the HPC market. At the top level, things look great. We found a 24.1% growth […]

HPCwireDoug Eadline

From HMx Labs

A not so short rant on the state of AI cantered around being asked to answer hard questions

GenAI, Risk Systems and Hard Questions

Trying to answer “what good looks like?” and a rant about GenAI’s capabilities.

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

Want a tip on how to write your email and documentation? Write it like you write your code

Write Like You Code

A long winded tip for software engineers on how to write words instead of code

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

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