Short Description
HPC (High-Performance Computing) refers to the use of powerful computing infrastructure to process and analyze large volumes of data at high speed β often involving parallel processing across thousands of CPUs or GPUs. Traditionally used in fields like scientific research, engineering simulations, and financial modeling, HPC is now increasingly dominated by AI workloads, particularly large-scale model training and inference.
In modern contexts, AI and HPC are often used interchangeably, as training large neural networks (e.g. GPT, Llama, diffusion models) requires the same kind of compute clusters, interconnects, and data center infrastructure historically used in supercomputing.