AI Ushers in HPC Revival Says TACC’s Dan Stanzione

High performance computing is enjoying an extreme vindication, said Dan Stanzione, Associate Vice President for Research at The University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of TACC. In the opening plenary presentation at last week’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Stanzione said that after years of cloud computing hype, artificial intelligence now demands traditional high performance computing architecture.

That’s a space Stanzione knows well. The Texas Advanced Computing Center—TACC—is home to some of the largest supercomputers on the planet and Stanzione has been there for more than 14 years. Though located at UT Austin, TACC is mostly supported by National Science Foundation funding, explained Stanzione. “‘Largely government funded’ means if you want time with our...

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