Quantum #87

HPC’s busiest week this year just drew to an end and I’m not even going to attempt to summarise it for you. I’m sure Mr Lockwood will be along shortly to do that 😁 I have however collected some of the more interesting announcements and articles and of course your HPC cloud release notes which are chock full (especially AWS). 

More importantly though, we have HPC Club coming up on Wednesday and rather unusually we still have a few spots available. We’ll have both AMD and Nvidia on the panel to talk about the future of CPU, GPUs, APUs and any other kind PUs you’d like. If you need to make significant hardware purchase decisions, this is probably the most difficult time I’ve come across in my career. Want to get some clarity and ask two of the biggest companies driving supercomputing today? Come along and ask.

HPC Club slots rather nicely between SC25 and CIUK in the calendar so you can figure out what your future compute strategy is, catch up on the SC25 gossip and plan your trip Manchester for CIUK all in one go.

In The News & SC25

Updates from the big three clouds on all things HPC during SC25

HPC Cloud Updates WE 23 Nov 2025

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. SC25 just wrapped up, what did the cloud providers give us? AWS has a lot, not too surprising given re:Invent is just around the corner too. Tasty Blackwell Chips Ahoy from AWS and Azure

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

New Top 500 released. El-Capitan is still king of the hill and Jupiter achieves exascale status… the real heavyweights are still missing though! 

El Capitan Retains #1 as JUPITER Becomes Europe’s First Exascale System in the 66th TOP500 List | TOP500

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and Next Platforms analysis of it

Modest HPC Centers Drive Top500 Supercomputer Rankings This Time Around

For the past two years now, we have been picking apart the semi-annual rankings of supercomputers known as the Top500 is a different way, focusing on the

The Next PlatformTimothy Prickett Morgan

SC25 fully drinks the AI hype aid, even as the financial markets turned red

https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/11/20/ai-optimism-springs-from-gigatrends-sc25-keynote-speaker-but-also-a-word-of-caution/

A more realistic take, that shines a light on what the data centres and supercomputers of the future might require. More plumbers and less sysadmins?

https://www.hpcwire.com/2025/11/19/sc25-observations-more-pumps-than-processors/

SchedMD releases Slinky v 1.0

slurm-operator/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.0.md at main · SlinkyProject/slurm-operator

Run Slurm on Kubernetes. A Slinky project. Contribute to SlinkyProject/slurm-operator development by creating an account on GitHub.

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AMD and Eviden set to power new Exascale supercomputers in Europe

https://www.amd.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-11-18-amd-and-eviden-to-power-europe-s-new-exascale-supe.html

From HMx Labs

Want to heat up the universe? Lets run AI inference as Monto Carlo paths!

Monte Carlo Inference

What if we ran LLM inference as Monte Carlo paths for financial analytics workloads?

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What happened to quantum computing in finance?

Quantum vs AI in Finance

Despite the odd attention-grabbing headline, Quantum Computing seems to not be getting much attention from the finance community

Flux by HMx LabsHamza

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