Inferencing in an HPC/Advanced Computing Environment, Application Needs Must Be Well Understood

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) recently hosted its 104th Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland with the theme of "Living in a Changing Environment". The event consisted of 47 meetings and symposia on various topics involving the science, policy, and technology of climate change, oceanography, and meteorology. Among these was the 10th Annual Symposium on High Performance Computing (HPC) for Weather, Water, and Climate. HPC is considered essential to the efforts of weather, water, and climate organizations worldwide to provide accurate forecasts and advance scientific understanding of Earth's systems. A panel discussion including David Michaud (NWS), Laurie Carriere (NASA), Thomas Hauser (NCAR), Frank Indiviglio (NOAA), and Tiago Quintino (ECMWF) shed light on the shared challenges and opportunities faced by these organizations in leveraging HPC for weather prediction and climate modeling.

Throughout the year, Hyperion Research uses our surveys to ask buyers about near-term expectations for their spending on HPC. We ask whether, in the next quarter, they expect the amount they spend to increase, decrease or stay the same. If they expect spending to go up or down in the next quarter, we ask by what percentage. The questions and resulting data are not limited to servers but also include anticipated spending on cloud usage and on desktop computers. We then use this data collected over multiple quarters, along with historical revenue patterns and other sources, to help us generate our HPC market forecasts.