AI Isn’t Replacing HPC – It IS HPC

In recent discussions with industry vendor sales and marketing teams, I’ve repeatedly heard that HPC demand is falling while AI system demand continues to surge. I’ve also seen articles suggesting that AI is displacing HPC. This just isn’t the case. Period. AI is not a separate category that is replacing HPC. AI is a subset…

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First & Lasting SC25 Impression: It’s a Liquid Cooled World Now

The first thing that struck me when I entered the show floor at SC25 is that it’s big. Very big. There were over 16,000 attendees, all of whom seemed intent on wandering into my path while I was power-walking from one corner of the massive exhibit hall to the exact opposite side for my next…

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The Real Challenges of AI (and Why Most Data Centers Aren’t Ready)

  The conversation around AI is everywhere. Most of it focuses on models, new applications, and what AI might do next. Very little of it talks about what it actually takes to run these workloads at scale. That’s the problem. AI isn’t just another application category. It is a fundamentally different class of computationally intense…

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