Application Scaling for Typical HPC Site Covers Broad Range from Single-Core to Multi-Node

In a recent study, respondents reported that only about half of all their HPC applications (46.8%) run on multiple nodes, leaving half of the applications running on a single node or less. Looking at the top two applications per site, two-thirds (68.9%) were run on multiple nodes. This suggests that the typical HPC site has at least several important, large-scale applications, and a very large set of single node jobs. 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.