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computing analytics in manufacturing plants or industrial infrastructure.
The advent of industry standard HPC What has driven this emerging small and mid-scale HPC market among commercial companies, including mid and smaller sized firms is the advent of scalable HPC systems built on industry-standard hardware and soſtware architectures. Not only has that brought costs down, but
the use of industry-standard architectures has made it much easier to apply enterprise skill sets and soſtware to HPC environments. ‘In the past, large HPC systems were very
complex and very proprietary,’ says Scott Tease, executive director, hyperscale and high performance computing at Lenovo. ‘Now, if you look at the TOP500 list, you could take any of a number of systems at the
THE LOW END OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING HAS BEEN GROWING FASTER THAN THE HIGH END OF HIGH- PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
top of the list and you could build a cluster that’s only five or six nodes wide, or a 5,000 node cluster, using the same technologies and skill sets.’ ‘When you take building blocks made up
of standard components that can do pretty much any enterprise task and interconnect them together to create a supercomputer, the entry barrier is much lower. Te systems look a lot more like what people are used to dealing with, and they can do a lot more tasks well. Tey are not single-purpose machines. It is an enormous reduction in the barrier to entry to HPC,’ says Lenovo’s Scott Tease.
Smaller HPC fuelling rapid growth According to vendors, this sector of the market is the now the fastest growing segment in high-performance computing – which makes the emerging market for commercial mid and smaller scale HPC one of the fastest segments across the whole of the global $3.4 trillion IT market. ‘Te low end of high-performance
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