Running a Pre-Exascale, Geographically Distributed, MultiCloud Scientific Simulation

Surpassing pre-pandemic attendance and achieving new attendance and exhibitor participation records, SC23 in Denver, CO did not disappoint. With over 14,000 on-site attendees and over 435 exhibitors, SC23 provided a vibrant, high-energy environment for the global HPC community to exchange ideas while establishing or extending collaborative partnerships and relationships. As is our custom, the Hyperion Research team of analysts has compiled its primary takeaways and perspectives from the event.

Since the dawn of the Supercomputer Era in the 1960s, a succession of base processors (CPUs) has attempted to satisfy HPC users' nearly insatiable demands for fast solution times on a wide spectrum of challenging problems, combined with affordability and energy efficiency. Chief among these entrants were vector processors, which ruled the HPC market through the 1990s, then RISC processors, and then x86-based processors, which began their steep ascendancy at that time and continue to dominate the market today, often in tandem with GPUs or other accelerators.