Random Bytes The Hidden Cost of Numerical Instability How much more are you paying for your financial risk analytics than you need to be?
Random Bytes Compute Utilisation: Not what you think it means A brief guide to understanding what utilisation in compute clusters means and how this relates to your code, supercomputers and cloud providers.
Random Bytes Slurm of the Dead The bubble popped but the jobs keep running. Just some fun and giggles for a Friday on Halloween
Random Bytes Interpreting Benchmarks: Throughput or Latency? Benchmarks are fun but making sure you pick the right one and interpret the results correctly can be tricky
Random Bytes SMT/HT in HPC Should HPC workloads run with Simultaneous Multi-Threading/ Hyperthreading enabled or not? Fight!
Random Bytes HPC in Finance and Academia: Chocolate and Peanut Butter HPC in academia and financial services has a surprising amount in common and I don’t just mean the obvious challenges of operating at scale.
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!