Quantum #75
Issue #75 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Downill mountain bikes, CPUs and white papers on financial services HPC optimisation.
Its HPC news time again and I have managed to avoid injury chasing my daughter down the side of the Alps on a downhill mountain bike so that your news can be delivered as usual!
Her previous BMX skills experience showed, and despite her being only 9 I had trouble keeping up on some of the tighter alternating banked sections! Much to her amusement and pleasure.
Having to walk all the way back down with two bikes because my 7yr fell off 100m from the top and the totally lost confidence was less fun. In her defence, she wasn’t feeling well. I probably shouldn’t have agreed to let her attempt it at all given she was a little feverish. Walking down grassy ski slopes made for an interesting change though at least, I guess.
The rest of the week since then has been a bit mad and includes me flying back to London only to forget my house keys with the rest of my family in France and lose my Airpods on the flight back. Doh!
You’ve not heard much from me this week and that’s partly been because of the afore mentioned madness but also because I’ve been trying (but mostly failing) to focus on completing the white paper we’re working on and getting chapter 2 of An Intro to Supercomputing out the door. I’m so close!
Hopefully at least one of them will be publicly available next week, though I still have no idea how to title the white paper given the rather diverse ground it now covers. I do wonder if I should ask someone to peer review it first, or is that only a thing for real academic research? Any volunteers fancy giving me some early feedback before its more widely available?
In The News
Cloud HPC Release Notes: Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC
Intel’s next generation Xeon 7 CPUs are slated for next year. Unlike the usual iterative update, given Intel’s current situation the importance and success of these is probably a little more important than previous years. Not only for Intel but for a lot of their customers who are tied to Intel CPUs too.
Timothy Prickett Morgan
The Intel story also appears to be a little more complex than it seems at first glance. How much new money is actually getting injected?
Doug Eadline
AMD and IBM partner up for supercomputing where quantum meets traditional
staff
From HMx Labs
No real updates from HMx this week, though we do still have a few spaces left for HPC Club in Bristol. If you haven’t signed up already, I’d get cracking.
Whilst it got a little traction and led to one interesting conversation and helping to resolve a problem I’ve not had a great deal of feedback on what problems you have in HPC today. What’s keeping you awake? Or is it all just running smoothly?
Know someone else who might like to read this newsletter? Forward this on to them or even better, ask them to sign up here: https://cloudhpc.news
