HPC Wrapped: 2024
A look back at the most popular posts in 2024
That’s a wrap. 2024 is over. You’re probably in a holiday stupor and unable to absorb any new information so sit back and let the best bits of 2024’s HPC news wash over you.
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The most read story (and you could easily make the case also the one that stands to have the most impact in HPC) was written just after Pat Gelsinger exited Intel
For the last two decades, if you'd stuck your head in the sand and run everything on Intel x86, you'd have been fine. But 2024 made it clear: that comfortable strategy is officially over. Architectural diversity isn't just a trend—it's survival.
It asks more questions than it answers and as we look back over 2024 the inevitable thought in everyone’s mind is what will this mean for compute in 2025 and beyond? I’ll share my own thoughts on this next week along with what else I hope to see in 2025.
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Next up was a little piece written on holiday about the quantity of data and compute used by CERN. Even now, some very impressive numbers!
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The initial idea for launching HPC CLUB was comfortably in the top 3 and easily the biggest impact on HMx Labs’ community engagement work.
Our first meetup in November proved something critical: the HPC community is hungry for real dialogue. Not vendor presentations. Not sales pitches. Just practitioners sharing hard-earned insights about what actually works.
For those wondering: yes, we're expanding HPC Club. No, it's not another conference. It's a community committed to cutting through the noise.
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Following the announcement of AWS’ Parallel Compute Service I put forward some of my own thoughts about what HPC 2.0 should look like. Seems like a struck a chord there with a few of you!
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What started out as comic to show the evolution of HPC from single machine, single user to cloud scale multi user, multi machine compute turned into a commentary on the state of AI and how useful it is
I hope 2024 has been good to you all. See you in 2025!
