More Sites are Employing Multiple CSPs

As utilization of HPC resources in the cloud continues to grow, users are turning to multiple CSPs to satisfy their HPC cloud resource requirements. Sites surveyed in this study who indicated they utilized HPC resources in the cloud employed an average of approximately two CSPs for their HPC workloads. Reasons for employing a multi-cloud strategy include:

• Gaining access to specialized hardware only available on one CSP platform, like the TPU from Google or the Trainium processor from AWS
• Accessing specific tools or services
• Leveraging a dataset hosted on a specific cloud platform
• Collaborating with other researchers who utilize different platforms

This data is from an annual study which is part of the eighth edition of Hyperion Research’s high-performance computing (HPC) end-user-based tracking of the HPC marketplace. It included 181 HPC end-user sites with 3,830 HPC systems.