Living in a tech-driven world is a boon to us in many ways. It is possible to do the work of hours just in the matter of minutes, thanks to the continuous upgradation of technology. Technology started to revolutionize with the introduction of computer by Babbage.
Initially, it was a machine used to just perform calculations. Now, the times have changed, and it is the world of high-performance computing. Let’s see, what is it.
HPC is a technology, making use of clusters of powerful processors, working parallelly for processing massive big data and solve intricate problems at tremendously high speeds. HPC systems perform at over one million times faster than the fastest commodity laptop, desktop or server systems.
HPC workloads discover important new insights advancing human knowledge and generate substantial competitive advantage. For instance, HPC is put to use for sequencing DNA, mechanize stock trading, and run AI algorithms and simulations like those empowering self-driving automobiles, that has the potential to analyze big data streaming from radar, IoT sensors, and GPS systems in real time for making instant decisions.
Understanding HPC and Cloud Computing
If we talk about sometime back, this technology was not feasible for most of the organizations, with high cost incurred in leasing a super computer.
Today HPC in the cloud offers a considerably faster, further scalable and affordable way for corporations to be benefited from HPC. HPCaaS includes access to HPC clusters and infra hosted in a the data center of a cloud service provider, and ecosystem capabilities.
Nowadays, HPC in the cloud is powered by three trends:
• Increasing Requirement
Organizations are becoming more and more reliant on the immediate insights and competitive advantage resulting from solving the intricate problems only HPC apps are able to solve. For instance, detection of credit card fraud something almost all of us depend on and it has happened with almost all of us at some or the other point in time, depend increasingly on HPC for identifying fraud faster and reducing false positives, even as fraud activity increases and tactics of the fraudsters change continually.
• Incidence of Lower-Latency, Advanced-Throughput RDMA Networking
RDMA allows one networked computer for accessing another networked memory of a computer without including either operating system of a computer or disturbing either the processing of the computer. This helps minimalize latency and make the most of quantity. Evolving high-performance RDMA fabrics as well as Infiniband, Architecture, and RoCE are making cloud-based HPC possible.
• Availability of Widespread Public-and Private Cloud HPCaaS
In the current scenario every top public cloud service provider provides HPC services. And although some organizations run extremely regulated or sensitive HPC capacities on-premises, several are accepting private-cloud HPC solutions provided by the vendors of hardware and software solutions.
Coming to a Conclusion
It is because of the rising use of this technology by companies, all over the world, the demand for high performance computing technology will continue to grow, and will reach a value of USD 74,101 million, by the end of this decade.
