Quantum #76

This week’s HPC news comes to from its usual boring location and thankfully it was a relatively quiet week in the HPC world so it looks like I didn’t miss very much as I attempted to take a few days off last week and touch sand.

Over the last month or soI’ve been able to work pretty consistently with just 5G coverage and using only my aging iPhone 12 mini at that. I think I had to revert to Starlink once, whilst driving along an autoroute (don’t worry I wasn’t the one driving!). Apart from being 100 or so meters underground or on a beach in the middle of nowhere I had pretty good 5G coverage. Oh and the Starlink didn’t work in those two locations either. Overall, it was a fairly successful fully remote working experiment, I think. Back to the usual routine again now.

I have a working title for our next paper: “An Examination of HPC Workloads in Financial Services on AMD 4^thand 5^th Generation EPYC CPUs”. First draft is complete and under internal review and the first teaser is below along with the rest of your HPC news below.

In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 09 Sep 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Fairly quiet week again. We have a new AWS Region in New Zealand and more flexible ways to save on HPC compute on Google.

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Bored of hearing about GPU accelerated HPC? Here’s an alternative

Why Is Japan Still Investing In Custom Floating Point Accelerators?

It has taken nearly two decades and an immense amount of work by millions of people for high performance computing to go mainstream with GenAI. And now,

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Europe’s first exascale supercomputer goes live

NVIDIA: Europe’s 1st Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Now Live

Sept. 5, 2025 — The Jülich Supercomputing Centre’s JUPITER — Europe’s first exascale supercomputer — is officially live. Unveiled today at the supercomputer’s inauguration ceremony in Jülich, JUPITER is accelerating […]

HPCwire

This is an Eviden sponsored article but its fun getting some insight into supercomputers even if it is an advertorial

Building Jupiter: An Exascale Supercomputer, and a Room to Put It In

Connecting 24,000 GPUs mounted in 125 racks, with 36,000 high performance network cables for a machine which uses 17MW running full tilt - and getting it all running smoothly as a single system is hard – but doing all that to a very tight deadline, and with no data centre to put it in is virtually impossible. - Read more from Inside HPC & AI News.

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From HMx Labs

Every now and again, it’s a good idea to go back and just check that hard earned intuition you have is still valid. Can HPC in the cloud run faster than on prem? Looks like it can. Want to make sure you don’t miss the full details? Hit subscribe.

Faster HPC on Bare Metal or in the Cloud?

What’s faster cloud virtual machines or bare metal? The answer may surprise you. It certainly surprised me.

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HPC Club in Bristol still has a few slots left if you haven’t booked your ticket yet

HPC Club: Bristol Edition - HPC CLUB

HPC Club event on the future of HPC schedulers. Join us for an evening of discussion and networking with industry experts. 24 Sept 2025 @ 17:00, The Forge, Bristol, UK.

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