49% of HPC Sites Indicate That AI Expertise Is the Number One Barrier to Increased AI Adoption and Usage

In January of 2023, U.S. and European Union government representatives signed an administrative agreement that would bring artificial intelligence (AI) experts together to collaborate and advance AI research, compute technology, and related privacy and data protection elements. This agreement represents a step towards addressing the goals enumerated in the recent U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council (TCC) commitment penned in December of 2022. The effort emphasizes responsible advancement and use of AI "to address major global challenges" in five key areas: Extreme Weather and Climate Forecasting, Emergency Response Management, Health and Medicine Improvements, Electric Grid Optimization, and Agriculture Optimization.

The usage of multiple programming languages is becoming ubiquitous at HPC sites as the number of languages per site continues to rise. C/C++ and Python are particularly popular, with the majority of HPC sites using both languages at least some of the time. This data is from an annual study that is part of the eighth edition of Hyperion Research's HPC end-user-based tracking of the HPC marketplace. It included 181 HPC end-user sites with 3,830 HPC systems.