The Strategies and Circumstances Surrounding Virginia’s “Data Center Alley”

The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users. In May 2021, the 76th HPC User Forum took place virtually. This update summarizes a presentation from that virtual conference given by Chuck Gilbert, the Technical Director of Solutions Architecture at AMD. He gave updates on the most recent AMD CPU offerings, developments in heterogeneous architecture, and AMD's role in the future of high-performance computing. To Gilbert and the leadership at AMD, high performance computing is at the center of today's world and has improved every aspect of our lives. He explained that the market is now in a high-performance computing megacycle driven by the vast demands of cloud computing, digital transformation, 5G, and AI.

The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users. In September 2019, the 73rd HPC User Forum took place at the Argonne National Laboratory, In Lemont, Illinois. This update summarizes a presentation from that meeting entitled, HPC and Data Down Under: The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Square Kilometre Array and HPC in Australia, given by Mark Stickells, Executive Director of The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.