SMT/HT in HPC
Should HPC workloads run with Simultaneous Multi-Threading/ Hyperthreading enabled or not? Fight!
Everything tagged: HPC
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.
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!
Hatchbacks and Ferraris
Scaling compute can take different forms. Want to learn more?
What’s Inside a Supercomputer?
About 3 months late but Chapter 2 of an Introduction to Supercomputing is finally available!
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’s Biggest Problem Today?
Let’s talk about what’s frustrating you today instead of what’s on the horizon for once.
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.