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 What’s Inside a Supercomputer? About 3 months late but Chapter 2 of an Introduction to Supercomputing is finally available!
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.
Random Bytes 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 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?