Perspectives from SC22

Due to a shift in HPC sites' perception of HPC cloud resources available and in future roadmaps from CSPs, the HPC cloud market continues to be one of the strongest growth markets in today's HPC ecosystem. While the HPC on-premises market is not projected to dramatically change from the steady 6%-8% five-year CAGR seen in years past, the cloud market is currently showing a projected 17.6% five-year CAGR for the next five years.

With a theme of Reinventing HPC, ISC24 provided a venue for the global HPC community to come together and share knowledge and experiences relative to the latest market developments and technology innovations for the evolution of advanced technical computing. That said, it was clear that this was the year that AI took over the conference and was the key topic of discussion. Issues at the forefront centered on new hardware and software to support the rapidly expanding demand for AI training and inference, the promise and concerns with AI 's abilities to accelerate scientific and engineering workloads, apprehensions with the relative slowdown in performance progress made in the traditional HPC space, the growing presence and influence of cloud-based capabilities and their associated providers, especially in the areas of AI, and the issues, if not angst, of new AI processor availability, performance, and cost. Indeed, the approximately 3,200 attendees reflected a wide array of sentiment towards the convergence and adoption of AI within the worldwide scientific and research community, ranging from examples of compelling use cases and success stories to lessons learned from associated challenges, to "… AI will soon be inflicted upon us … ."