5 Benefits Artificial Intelligence Brings to HPC - HPCwire

According to findings from Hyperion Research, simulation is primarily responsible for expanding the global HPC market from $2 billion in 1990 to a projected $38 billion in 2022. And one of the fastest-growing components of that forecast is high performance data analysis -- using HPC systems for data-intensive simulation and analytics. HPC simulation began in government and academic research organizations, to tackle daunting problems in the "hard sciences": physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy/cosmology and geology. Even within academia, the use of HPC simulation now extends to disciplines including cultural anthropology and archeology, historical linguistics and the social sciences. The use of HPC systems primarily for integer-based, data-intensive computing, as opposed to floating point-based simulation, began in the intelligence/defense community in the 1960s, at the start of the supercomputer era, and spread to large investment banks in the financial services industry in the 1980s.