November 20189 WE ARE LIVING THROUGH A DIGITAL REVOLUTION MARKING A FUNDAMENTAL SHIFT IN HOW WE COMPUTE BUT MOST OF ALL HOW WE GENERATE AND CONSUME DATAunderstanding diseases better and finding cures for them, designing safer airplanes digitally or predicting extreme weather events more accurately. Beyond this, HPC has long been leveraged in more mundane examples to find the best curve of a crisp, to design Olympic record breaking swim suits or leak-proof diapers.Today, HPC has really become pervasive across industries, a tool readily available to most organisations big and small and is no longer the turf of government labs, universities and large companies. But beyond the amazing processing capacity offered by HPC, I believe it offers a unique opportunity to manage efficiently the data deluge triggered by the ever more connected world we are living in. The long history and investment from the HPC industry to extract every last ounce of performance across all components of HPC architecture--be it memory, compute, storage or networking makes it uniquely positioned to facilitate and handle the required speeds and feeds of an impatient world.No one is better positioned than an HPC expert to architect a complex solution that will seamlessly move data from the Edge to the Core, from memory to compute and then to storage, whether on premise or in the cloud and all this leveraging low latency networks and next generation wireless technologies. Most of all, nobody understands better how valuable data has become and how critical it is to be available in real time, anytime. We live in a data centric world where we need answers fast to handle the 3.5 billion Google searches per day, the 400 hours of video being added to YouTube every hour or the 31 million messages posted on Facebook every minute. Data is the new IP and its value is derived from our ability to turn data into insight, insight into action and action into success. Finding valuable learnings from millions of sources and data types has become the new IT frontier and to predicate how data will be used to augment human capabilities and performance through machine learning and artificial intelligence.All of this is why HPC matters
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