For HPC and Deep Learning, GPUs are here to stay - insideHPC

In this special guest feature from Scientific Computing World, David Yip, HPC and Storage Business Development at OCF, provides his take on the place of GPU technology in HPC. There was an interesting story published earlier this week in which NVIDIA's founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, said: 'As advanced parallel-instruction architectures for CPU can be barely worked out by designers, GPUs will soon replace CPUs'. There are only so many processing cores you can fit on a single CPU chip. There are optimized applications that take advantage of a number of cores, but typically they are used for sequential serial processing (although Intel is doing an excellent job of adding more and more cores to its CPUs and getting developers to program multicore systems). By contrast, a GPU has massively parallel architecture consisting of many thousands of smaller, more efficient cores designed for handling multiple tasks simultaneously.