Addressing HPC's Growing Resource Challenge
siliconANGLE, Wednesday, November 15,2023
The high-performance computing market is booming at over $35 billion in annual revenue. Fueled by the ongoing wave of new market developments, that number should soar as the decade's end approaches.
There is a lingering problem though: HPC infrastructures and operations need power and generate lots of heat. In response, companies are developing ingenious solutions to keep power consumption at sustainable levels.
'One of the biggest trends that we're seeing in the industry right now is that the power needs are going up significantly,' said Shreya Shah (pictured, left), senior product manager of AI and HPC at Dell Technologies Inc. 'This is primarily because of TDPs, or thermally dissipated power, for silicon that is exploding. When we say silicon, we're talking about CPUs, we're talking about GPUs.'