Beth Kent 
A lot of HPC and AI outages don’t happen solely because of hardware failures. They happen because one person or a small team was holding everything together and then wasn’t there. If removing one person turns routine issues into crises, you’re not running a platform, you’re running a rescue operation. This is not a problem … Read more
Reducing Risk and Maximising Performance High‑Performance Computing (HPC) environments never sit quietly. Workloads grow, AI models get hungrier, research expands, and expectations climb. Meanwhile, infrastructure ages gracefully… or not so gracefully. And through all this, someone, somewhere, is expected to “just keep the cluster running.” Easy, right? Spoiler: it’s not. In many organisations, that responsibility … Read more
Compute, Power and Infrastructure Constraints Explained For much of the past two years, discussions around AI have been dominated by possibility. What models might achieve. What productivity gains could follow. What advantage might accrue to those who move first? More recently, the conversation has shifted. In meetings and programme reviews, the constraint I see most … Read more
What Will the Next 5 Years Bring? Wildfires are one of the few public decision‑making contexts where delays have immediate and irreversible physical consequences. Historically, fire spread paths were predicted by (very clever) humans analysing different impact variables: fuel, weather, terrain, etc. The human-based strategy faced a high exposure to error, but was better than … Read more
And why Carbon Literacy was our first step At Red Oak Consulting, we’ve always believed in doing the right thing. As a team of problem solvers working at the centre of HPC and cloud transformation, we pride ourselves on helping organisations use technology efficiently, responsibly and intelligently. But by early 2024, one thing had become … Read more
Processes That Matter At Red Oak I have had the privilege of working with numerous organisations to assist with expanding their HPC footprint into the cloud. With an ever-evolving set of resource types available from cloud providers, technical implementation is rarely the issue. Instead, defining the practical processes and governance through which the HPC service … Read more
Entering the World of HPC and AI Infrastructure I have worked in technology for most of my career, just not in this corner of it. When I stepped into the world of HPC and AI infrastructure as a Partnership Sales Manager at Red Oak Consulting, I will be honest, I felt like the new girl … Read more
The Hidden Cost of the Digital Age Water scarcity is one of the most urgent environmental challenges of the 21st century. Today, half of the world’s population is affected by water stress, and by 2030 the globe will face more than 40% shortfall in freshwater resources. These are not distant projections; they describe a crisis that … Read more
Why AI’s Greatest Scientific Gift May Be “Filling in the Gaps” When people imagine artificial intelligence reshaping science, they often picture something dramatic: an AI discovering the cure for cancer outright, solving the question of dark matter, or unifying the laws of physics in a single stroke. These fantasies make for catchy headlines, but in … Read more
Hi all! It’s me, Roco, your charming, insightful and ever-curious HPC-loving robot (modesty chip still not been installed), checking in during the first proper week back after the end-of-year break. I can tell it’s January. Laptops are opening a little more slowly. Calendars are being stared at suspiciously. And around Red Oak HQ (and on Teams), I’ve already heard more than one … Read more
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