HPC User Forum – The shift from legacy storage to modern data platforms

Until relatively recently, HPC workloads have been characterized by the needs of the engineering and scientific community largely around modeling and simulation. Applications such as CFD, crash analysis, seismic exploration, reservoir modeling, and climate simulation drove similar requirements for the systems they run on. The advent of big data and AI/ML/DL, however, has seen new requirements being placed on all elements of the HPC infrastructure, compute, and storage alike. A transition is underway from legacy storage solutions to modern data platforms, not only to satisfy the traditional modeling/simulation workloads but also heterogeneously support the newer AI/ML/DL workloads.

On Thursday, April 29, the next in a series of virtual HPC User Forum Special Events will stream live. Analysts, vendor strategists, and end-users will share and discuss perspectives on modern data workloads with a focus on performance, scale, and simplicity. The event will conclude with a panel discussion around the current state and future of the modern data platform.