Quantum #66

I will keep it rather brief this week as I am supposed to be on holiday and I’ve already had some hard stares (yes I’ve been watching Paddington with the kids too) from my family as I write this at the breakfast table in on a rooftop in Istanbul.

All your usual updates are below and if you didn’t twig yet, the thing about cooking and HPC is a veiled reference to some of what we hope to achieve with Supercomputing Strategy Group. I don’t think anyone has managed to unmask HPC Zorro… so here’s another clue. He’s come out of retirement so we snagged him.

In The News

A new VM family from Azure, Well Architected guidelines and all your other cloud release notes for HPC summarised

HPC Cloud Updates WE 29 Jun 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. We have new VM familiy in Azure, Well Architected guidelines for HPC and some interesting interconnect benchmarking

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

Glenn Lockwood has put a considerable amount of work into his ISC25 recap and it is rather excellent. If you missed ISC25 then this is a great way to catch and and quite honestly even if you did manage to attend, you’ll probably learn something

Glenn K. Lockwood

Writing to make sense of HPC, storage, and system design

BloggerGlenn K. Lockwood

And a recap of HPSFCon from HPC Wire

HPSFCon 2025 Recap: Building the Future of High Performance Software

The inaugural High-Performance Software Foundation Conference (HPSFCon) 2025 brought together developers, researchers, and industry leaders committed to building the future of performance-portable, community-driven HPC software. Held in Chicago, the four-day […]

HPCwireDoug Eadline

AI is still taking over the world

HPE Throws Everything At AI – And AI At Everything

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has kept a steady drumbeat for much of the year as it looks to position itself as the go-to IT hardware and software vendor for

The Next PlatformJeffrey Burt

From HMx Labs

A little explanation on how we operate with partners and other vendors at HMx Labs

No Kickbacks. No Bias. Just the Right Advice.

Some quick insight to how we operate at HMx Labs and why we’re so committed to being independent and neutral.

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

Wandering around Istanbul and making tenuous comparison between HPC and cooking.. hmm.. 

HPC is like cooking?

Comparing HPC to cooking to illustrate how entangled we have become

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

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