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HPC · High-Performance Computing

The scientific supercomputing tradition AI clusters descend from — gang scheduling, low-latency fabrics, parallel filesystems — now repurposed for training at scale.

Current numbers

~70% / ~20% / ~10%AI/HPC scheduler share: Slurm / Kubernetes / in-house (rule of thumb)as of 2026 · register ↗
500–2,000 AVery-high-current delivery range for modern AI/HPC processors at sub-1V core voltages; peak requirements reach approximately 2,000 Aas of 2025 · register ↗
~41% / ~17% / ~6%parallel-FS deployment share: Lustre / IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) / WekaFS in HPC surveysas of 2025 · register ↗

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