Quantum #64

Well, the most important thing last week I guess was ISC25. I have some thoughts of my own down below but given I spent barely a couple of hours actually at ISC proper and didn’t attend a single presentation, panel or BoF I’m hardly qualified to say much more! Hopefully Glenn Lockwood will provide a good summary similar to the one he did for SC24. Hint Hint.

I did attend a couple of great workshops and will hopefully have a bit of time to share more details on those later this week.

In the meantime there are several articles from HPC Wire or for a blow by blow account the #HPC hashtag on Bluesky works quite well. 

The second most important thing to mention though of course is that the unofficial gossip catch up session for ISC25 is this Wednesday at HPC Club 😆. Plus, we will be talking about the future of HPC schedulers with a rather impressive panel of speakers.

Full details here:

The Future of HPC Schedulers - HPC CLUB

HPC Club event on the future of HPC schedulers. Join us for an evening of discussion and networking with industry experts. 18 June 2025 @ 17:00, Canary Wharf, London.

HPC CLUB

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC. Honestly this was much quieter than I thought it would be. The output from the hyperscalers, much like their presence at ISC25, is somewhat muted.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 15 Jun 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Quieter than I thought but Google have a couple of new toys to show off.

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

AMD starts shipping MI350Xs

AMD Plots Interception Course With Nvidia GPU And System Roadmaps

To a certain extent, Nvidia and AMD are not really selling GPU compute capacity as much as they are reselling just enough HBM memory capacity and

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

Jupiter misses Exascale (for now)

Jupiter takes Europe’s HPC crown in 793PF Top500 run

ISC: Full system expected to break the exaFLOP barrier - perhaps in time for SC25 this fall?

The RegisterTobias Mann

From HMx Labs

My thoughts from ISC25. If you’re looking for a quick guide on everything interesting that happened, this isn’t it.

ISC25 – Some Thoughts

Some initial thoughts from a first time attendee at ISC

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

Some thoughts on how HPC evolved in financial services with a take on how that is similar to what we are seeing with HPC and AI today

Will HPC Survive AI

I’ve debated writing this for a long time. The idea has sat in my list of topics to write about for at least a year if not longer. Then last week Addison Snell’s article in HPC Wire brought the subject to the fore and that has given me

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

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