AI Market Bigger Than Expected, And Growing Faster
TheNextPlatform, Tuesday, November 19th, 2024
As far as we have been concerned since founding The Next Platform literally a decade ago this week, AI training and inference in the datacenter are a kind of HPC.
They are very different in some ways. HPC takes a tiny dataset and blows it up into a massive simulation like a weather or climate forecast that you can see, and AI takes a mountain of data about the world and grinds it down to a model you can pour new data through to make it answer questions. HPC and AI have different compute, memory, and bandwidth needs at different stages of their applications. But ultimately, HPC and AI training are trying to make a lot of computers behave like one to do a big job that is impossible to any other way.