Quantum #68

You’d be forgiven for thinking that the only thing HMx Labs does is HPC. I mean it is all I ever talk about. And our website, despite having been updated not too long ago is rather incomplete. Yes that beta sticker has been on there rather too long, but hey live in beta right? 

We do have other people at HMx Labs though. Some of them never even touch any HPC. In fact, we have a whole side of the company that’s really more about data. Yea we really do need to get the website updated with that. We’re working on it.

I bring this up now though because, just as I announced a few new members of the team last week thinking we’re done for the year, Kamran tells me we’re going to need to hire one or maybe two people. He and I will put out a job spec (in HMx style) this week with a bit of luck but if you know the pointy end of an IDE, ChatGPT hasn’t rotted your brain and data is your thing, time to start sharpening your CV.

Oh, yea sorry, this is supposed to be your weekly HPC newsletter! Well its kinda one side of that coin right? Fear not, rest of the real HPC news is below

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 13 Jul 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. GB200s on AWS, PCS comes to London, Azure gets secure boot on VMSS, Google London Summit recap

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Want to know if the new GB200s at AWS mentioned above are any good? Here you go

Sizing Up AWS “Blackwell” GPU Systems Against Prior GPUs And Trainiums

This week, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its first UltraServer pre-configured supercomputers based on Nvidia’s “Grace” CG100 CPUs and

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

Registration for SC25 is now open. I still haven’t figured out what we’re going to do. I’m literally having conversations about burner phones and laptops and the possibility of being detained by ICE if we have to attend. A year ago a sentence like that could only have meant travel to North Korea or maybe Russia or China. Anyone actually expecting us to be there or can we sit this one out?

Ignition: SC25 Registrations Are Go! • SC25

SC25 registration is open! We’re excited to welcome attendees from all over the world in St. Louis or via the Digital Experience.

SC25Cristin Merritt

Claude has worked its way into Livermore

AI for Science: Livermore Lab Expands Deployment of Anthropic AI

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is expanding its deployment of Anthropic’s Claude for Enterprise to its entire laboratory. Claude will be available to about 10,000 scientists .... - Read more from Inside HPC & AI News.

Inside HPC & AI News | High-Performance Computing & Artificial Intelligencestaff

From HMx Labs

Putting the Labs into HMx. Time for a new development cluster to play with

New Beowulf Cluster Time

We need a new test HPC cluster at HMx Labs. Time for some fun with hardware.

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What gives with being in the zone and using AI tools? Don’t we care any more?

AI and Flow

What happened to protecting a developer’s flow state in the AI era?

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