
2021 Use of Public/External Clouds for HPC Workloads, Trends, and Drivers
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Authors: Alex Norton, Mark Nossokoff
Publication Date: November 202021
Length: 5 pages
Users continue to run an increasing amount of their HPC workloads in the cloud. Recent Hyperion Research studies show that while heretofore the HPC cloud spending was largely complementary and incremental to on-premises HPC spending, there is growing evidence that on-premises spending is being either delayed or foregone altogether in lieu of cloud spending. Insights into the critical factors driving the trend are detailed in the 2021 iteration of Hyperion Research’s annual MCS end user study, Use of Public/External Clouds for HPC Workloads, Trends, and Drivers report. Key Findings from the report are summarized in this document.
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