Driving HPC Performance Up Is Easier Than Keeping The Spending Constant
The Next Platform, December 10,2025
We are still mulling over all of the new HPC-AI supercomputer systems that were announced in recent months before and during the SC25 supercomputing conference in St Louis, particularly how the slew of new machines announced by the HPC national labs will be advancing not just the state of the art, but also pushing down the cost of the FP64 floating point operations that still drives a lot of HPC simulation and modeling work.
Like many of you, we think that the very nature of HPC is changing, and not just because of machine learning and now generative AI, but also through the advent of mixed precision and the ability to change solvers to use it or to use lower-precision math units to emulate FP64 processing. It will be an interesting second half of the decade, to be sure.