Shifts Are Occurring in the File System Landscape

A part of the annual Hyperion Research HPC Multi-Client study (MCS) tracks the various application frameworks respondents use on their HPC systems to discover trends in user preference for the way applications are built and deployed, as well as trends in the functionalities users desire in their solutions and products. This year's iteration of the MCS found the most popular AI/ML/DL and data intensive frameworks were TensorFlow, PyTorch, Jupyter Notebook, SQL, CUDA, Hadoop, and Spark. 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.

This report, the latest in the Hyperion Research HPC Profiles in Leadership series, spotlights the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), located at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), in Jülich, Germany. With origins dating back to 1956 as "Zentralinstitut für Angewandte Mathematik" (ZAM), FZJ has expanded well beyond its initial charter of nuclear energy and nuclear physics research to driving scientific research across a wide breadth of disciplines, including bioeconomy, alternative energy, neuroscience, and climate research. Operating as Germany's first national center for high-performance computing since 1987, it became JSC in 2007 with the goal of ensuring that scientists and researchers are able to conduct ground-breaking research and address society's most complex challenges.