Thomas Leung, HPC Principal Technologist, GE Global Research
“The commercial world uses significant HPC resources for simulation and product design. An increasing number of HPC systems are deployed in the commercial space and their scale is getting larger and larger. These advanced systems push limits in every aspect of Enterprise IT. Accommodating such systems within the enterprise is a challenge, and there have been many recent changes to enterprise IT infrastructures and architectures resulting from the need to support HPC. Although Commercial HPC is part of the Supercomputing family, Commercial HPC has unique focus areas and challenges. Cloud, Data Lake, Industrial Internet, Internet of Things and Big Data have created a huge impact on HPC systems. Each of these initiatives offers new opportunities to both HPC itself and to the enterprise. HPC systems must change themselves to accept and accommodate these changes. This presentation covers how HPC transforms science in a corporate information technology ecosystem. It also explains the differences between Research HPC and Commercial HPC in terms of architecture, usage, resource planning and challenges.”
