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.
Everything tagged: HPC
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?
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
New Beowulf Cluster Time
We need a new test HPC cluster at HMx Labs. Time for some fun with hardware.
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.
HPC Expertise Graph
HPC is a broad niche, so much so in fact there are parts of it that may seem completely alien. So how do we communicate which parts of HPC we know about?
HPC Needs to Get Smarter
HPC as an end user really hasn’t improved much over the years. The user experience still forces you to become an expert in HPC rather than your chosen domain. Time to fix that?
HPC is like cooking?
Comparing HPC to cooking to illustrate how entangled we have become