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2025 Wrapped: HMx Labs Edition
A little recap of both your and our favourite bits of 2025 in the world of HPC and HMx Labs.
HPC on the Dark Side & 1 Million Lines of Code
How well do I stack up against Microsoft’s 1million LOC per engineer per month goal?
Can AI Tell You If You’re Reinventing the Wheel?
Is our AI code assistant quietly telling us more than just what the next line of code should be?
Nvidia Drinks (Acquires) Slurm
Some thoughts and questions on what Nvidia’s acquisition of Slurm means for both AI and traditional HPC.
2025 Wrapped: AI Edition
At the start of this year, I shared a few (non-exhaustive) ideas about how I thought AI would change things during the course of 2025. Shall we see how much I got wrong?
Comparing Cloud VM Performance Across Architectures Part 2
3 Clouds, 3 CPUs, 3,000 Hours of Benchmarks. A different look at the results.
Battling Numerical Instability: Stop Blaming the CPU
Before you blame the new CPU for breaking your VaR, maybe ask what your compiler flags and math libraries have been up to after hours.