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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 9m

Are you trying to combine #AI with other #HPC workloads? Attempting business automation? Be curious to hear your take

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AI Adoption (in FSI)

I don’t often talk about AI but I thought I’d share a few insights and join a few dots on what I’m seeing on AI adoption within financial services.

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 1d

no 😞 I'm out here slumming it

😂

Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 1d

Can anyone tell me where I can find some HBv5?

It allegedly exists according to this:
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

but is rather absent from here:
azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/explor...

not sure if there's an az CLI command that could find it without listing all VM types in every region...

Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 1d

Ah well we can't have that! Take my jet instead. No jacuzzi i'm afraid but i'm sure you'll make do!

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 1d

Shouldn't Microsoft be flying you there on a private helicopter? 😁

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 2d

Title to this one is straight from @forbiddenunix.com 😁

Let’s talk more across #HPC there’s a surprising amount in common even where you wouldn’t expect it.

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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.

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 3d

Its the deal structure that gets me.... looks like another infinite money glitch type affair.

Also I think it ends up giving Nvidia some ownership of AMD... assuming OpenAI actually hold the AMD shares that whole thing isn't just a funding trick (which it probably is).

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 5d

Thanks James. I really enjoyed working with you too!

This paper was a lot of fun and I think we’re not quite done with this topic… more to come with other CPUs

Oh and we tangle with the beast that is numerical stability too 😁

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 5d

with @hpcwrangler.com

a legit #hpc legend, it was a total blast my friend!

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#hpc #cloud

#hpc | James Cuff

Working with Hamza was one of the best things I've ever done. I've told him and others a number of times that his moral compass is pointed so inordinately and accurately due north, that it isn't even...

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 16d

Also, given hyper scalers all run CPUs you and I can’t buy anyway… does it matter?

If Big Cloud Co gets CPUs that are 5% than what you can actually buy doesn’t that offset any hypervisor tax anyway?

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 16d

You think the idea for this would be to replace hypervisors and allow multi tenant workloads on bare metal? Sounds iffy.

Whats the real overhead of a hyper visor these days?

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 17d

Was a bit of an exciting week for large scale compute, #HPC and AI in the UK last week and more big news from Intel, Nvidia and Microsoft. Eek.

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Quantum #78

Issue #78 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Well that was a bit of an ai-coaster. Nvidia taking a stake in Intel and investing heavily in the UK. Microsoft and others get in on the action to s...

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 19d

That's brilliant. So well articulated!

Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 19d

This. In Spades.

Depends on how you're measuring cost effectiveness but you'll get students to understand what's going on a heck of a lot faster when they can see it and not have to imagine a bunch of VMs and what's in them.

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Suhaib Khan @suhaibkhan.bsky.social · 19d

Beyond the water that cools the servers, data centers indirectly contribute to water use through the electricity generation needed to power their operations.

That indirect use often makes up 80%+ of the overall water use.

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#HPC #AI @spectrum.ieee.org

How Much Water Do AI Data Centers Really Consume?

There's a lot of confusion about how much water is used by AI. Get the real story on data centers' water consumption, and read about tech for doing better.

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 19d

We didn't actually order and build the cluster, but some basic maths before purchase showed the same thing when we put together our test rig.

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That was without even spending 1k on a blade kickstarter bundle!

New Beowulf Cluster Time

We need a new test HPC cluster at HMx Labs. Time for some fun with hardware.

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 20d

Come on man. We need somewhere safe for all those poor destitute bits and FLOPs. Won't someone think of the bits! 😁

Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 23d

Want to give yourself some #HPC flavoured nightmares? Take a read of this

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Silent Data Corruption

A brief introduction into the reality of hardware errors in large scale computing and breaking the myth of fail stop computing.

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 28d

With contributions from AMD!

Many thanks to Sarina Sit for the AMD content and making that happen and to those that helped me proof read it and provided feedback.

Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 28d

I know I’ve been promising this for a while and you’d be forgiven for thinking it wasn’t going to happen… but here it is. Chapter 2 of Intro to Supercomputing and #HPC

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Chapter 2: The Assembly

What goes into making a super computer? A look at the hardware that goes into making the fasters computers on the planet hum. With Guest Author: Sarina Sit (AMD)

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · Aug 23

Today I have been mostly avoiding finishing the paper I’m supposed to be writing by attempting to do somersaults on the trampoline with the kids. And failing at that too.

Meh. #HPC will have to wait a bit longer to find out how performance varies for throughout vs latency.

Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · Aug 21

In my defence…. I’m writing this between sets of pistol squats. 😁

Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · Aug 21

Which is where we use the only way I know how to securely decentralise something. Blockchain.

And I say this an somehone whI hates bitcoin, crypto and everything to do with this space right now.

So this idea is probably stupid and insecure and wrong for many reasons. But tell me why. /7

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · Aug 21

Everything else then build on this. Your data is encrypted with your key. That you control.

Everything else, iCloud, GMail, WhatsApp gets told where to find your public key.

Of course this thing then can’t be centralised /6

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Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · Aug 21

Imagine there was a way to publish your public key so anyone can find it. You manage that key.

You control how much information about you is visible with that key. Just a natural ID. Fine. Your address blood type too. Sure go nuts. /5

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