Quantum #86

While many of you have probably spent the weekend travelling to St Louis I have been ironing shirts and making sure I have a suit to wea. The dress code at Quant Minds is business smart. Needless to say, it’s been long enough since I last had to wear a suit that I had to go shopping 😆

Naturally there’s no shortage of content about SC25 and you can find all of that in the news below. I’m not too surprised at the amount of AI content at SC25, I am surprised at the amount of AI content at QuantMinds! Very curious to hear some of the speakers on the AI related topics in finance. If you’d like to catch up, I’ll be at QuantMinds on Monday and Tuesday.

HPC Club is coming up fast too (next week). Booked your place yet? Nvidia and AMD will be on the panel so I think we can have a pretty interesting conversation. Plus, Mugheesa might have some seasonal HPC Club merch too. Oh, and where else are you going to share all the SC25 gossip? 😁

CPUs GPUs APUs and all the rest - HPC CLUB

HPC Club event on CPUs, GPUs and silicon diversity. Join us for an evening of discussion and networking with industry experts. 26 November 2025 @ 17:00, Canary Wharf, London.

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In The News

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC including where to find them at SC25 and what they’ll be doing.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 16 Nov 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Including all the details of where they’ll be at SC25

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

Tips on how to get the most out of your time at St Louis. HPC Wire also has bit of an overview of what to expect.

A Look Ahead at SC25: How to Get the Most out of Next Week’s Conference in St. Louis

We put together an all-star panel for this, insideHPC’s fifth annual pre-SC panel discussion on the keynote and key sessions, anticipated news and major trends driving not only next week’s Supercomputing Conference in St. Louis ..... - Read more from Inside HPC & AI News.

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

AMD looks like it might be printing money for a while

AMD: Solid Roadmaps Beget Money, Which Beget Better Roadmaps And Even More Money

There is a vicious cycle that comes from screwing up, but there is also a virtuous cycle that comes from digging yourself out of the hole and not only not

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

Storage always seems to have healthy dose of controversy in HPC especially around the two big conferences (ISC and SC) so I guess VDURA are getting in there early with their marketing... but it’s an interesting read non the less

GPU monsters eat supercomputing, legacy storage starves

: VDURA boss: Your x86 clusters are obsolete, metadata is eating 20% of I/O, and every idle GPU second burns cash

The RegisterChris Mellor

From HMx Labs

A new Top500 drops soon. Does it matter?

Top500? Maybe Mid500

What does the Top500 really represent in the world of supercomputing?

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

I’ll be speaking about this very soon at Quant Minds: What is your inability to swap to a different CPU manufacturer costing you?

The Hidden Cost of Numerical Instability

How much more are you paying for your financial risk analytics than you need to be?

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

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