The United Kingdom’s Met Office has spent the past year running its operational weather and climate workloads on a purpose-built supercomputing cluster hosted by Microsoft Azure, and the early results are striking: a step-change in raw compute capacity, measurable gains in operational resilience...
High performance computing (HPC) sits at the engine room of modern science and industry, and the current vendor landscape reflects a rapid re‑ordering driven by AI, exascale ambitions, and cloud-first delivery models. The industry is anchored by a handful of hardware and software leaders — AMD...