
Perspectives on HPC Storage and Interconnects in the Second Half of 2021
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Authors: Mark Nossokoff, Bob Sorensen
Publication Date: 1 202022
Length: 12 pages
Storage and interconnects continue to be important elements of HPC system architecture and are expected to take on even greater significance with increasing demanding and diverse requirements driven by both traditional compute-intensive HPC mod/sim workloads and data-intensive AI workloads. The significance is reflected in recent market data and near-term forecasts, technology adoption and utilization trends, industry announcements in the second half of 2021, and future storage and related technology research direction of Hyperion Research.
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