AI Workloads Dominate Cloud Cycles Among HPC Users

Data collected in a 2022 survey conducted by Hyperion Research indicates that HPC users leverage cloud resources for AI workloads at the higher rate than either traditional mod/sim or big data applications. This 8th iteration of the Multi-Client Study captures insights from 181 HPC end-user sites with 3,830 HPC systems and includes data on a wide variety of HPC-user application types, resource allocation, success barriers, and visions of the future. This document highlights survey data that reveals that HPC-users allocate 40% of their external cloud resources toward AI workloads, with plans to increase this allocation in the future.