Tipping Points In HPC: A Hyperion Research Perspective
HPCWire, Thursday, February 13th, 2025
No one will argue that we are experiencing a big change in HPC. The advent of GenAI has skewed the entire IT market toward an AI future, affecting everything from hardware to data centers.
Prior to the emergence of LLMs (publicly available in 2022), HPC was progressing year after year using the latest and greatest CPU and GPUs. As HPCwire has proposed, we are entering a tipping point in HPC that brings together HPC, AI, and Big Data into a virtuous cycle of acceleration.
HPC has experienced tipping points in the past. This year at SC24, the Hyperion Research breakfast, CEO Earl Joseph pointed out two previous HPC tipping points and introduced a third. Joseph defines the tipping points as when computer capabilities reach a point where they are capable of doing something that wasn't possible previously.