Random Bytes The Bi-Modal Nature of Benchmarks Benchmarks can serve two subtly different purposes, are you sure you’re getting what you need from yours?
Random Bytes Measuring Cluster Performance Attempting to come up with a realistic distributed benchmark that includes not only the hardware but the also the software such as the scheduler, the data plane and internode communication
News HPC Cloud Updates WE 20 Jul 2025 Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. You can skip this one. Literally nothing of interest.
Random Bytes Death by HPC Friday fun. Which parts of a HPC system are most likely to kill you. Or the components of HPC for beginners in disguise.
Random Bytes Vibe Coding & the Value of Code What’s code worth when its generate with no effort? What does that mean for how we use it?
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
Random Bytes New Beowulf Cluster Time We need a new test HPC cluster at HMx Labs. Time for some fun with hardware.
News HPC Cloud Updates WE 06 Jul 2025 Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Well, there’s a new Graviton VM instance type from AWS but apart from that you might as well skip this one.