3 Ways To Advance Sustainability In High Performance Computing
CIO, Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Research reveals that sustainability is one of the top two priorities for HPC data centers. Here are three ways to advance your sustainability initiatives.
Finding the answer to the world's most pressing issues rests on one crucial capability: high performance computing (HPC). With HPC, complex questions that have puzzled humankind for centuries are being unraveled at record speeds-such as unlocking mysteries of the universe, finding cures for diseases, sequencing DNA, and mitigating the impacts of climate change.
The supercomputers that power HPC, however, require more and more energy to operate. For instance, the power consumption of the world's fastest supercomputer rose from 7.9MW in 2012 to 29.9MW in 2022. It's no wonder that-per a recent study commissioned by Dell Technologies, Intel and NVIDIA-HPC operators have elevated the importance of sustainability to the number two priority, even surpassing price.