Random Bytes Optimising Financial Services HPC Workloads on AMD EPYC 4th and 5th Generation Processors We take a look at optimising financial risk analytics on modern AMD CPUs. Turns out we had quite a lot to say. About 5500 words in fact!
Random Bytes 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.
HPC Cloud Release Notes HPC Cloud Updates WE 17 Aug 2025 Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioner. If you’re on holiday like most of Europe you’re not missing a whole lot this week. A couple of new VM types or sizes. Some noise from Gartner with dots in squares but that’s pretty much your lot.
Random Bytes Metered Innovation What impact does using a metered resource (such as the cloud) have on creativity and innovation?
News HPC Cloud Updates WE 03 Aug 2025 Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Fractional GPUs, a new Intel VM but that’s kinda your lot this week.
Misadventures In HPC Cloud Migration Can Your HPC Move to Cloud? Looking at a HPC refresh and wondering if you can move to the cloud? We’ve got a few tips you can follow to work it out.
News 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
News HPC Cloud Updates WE 25 May 2025 Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things… and Microsoft proves it’s still terrible at one and leaves the other to you.