Artificial intelligence is driving a major sea change in the high-performance computing world.At the Supercomputing 2023 event last week, experts from throughout the HPC ecosystem gathered in Denver, Colorado, to assess the state of their industry. What they found was a technology on the brink of a transformative era, one that will be driven by the integration of AI in traditional computing, combined with advancements in semiconductor and cloud architectures

A focal highlight of SC23 has been the discourse around groundbreaking developments, one of which is the convergence of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing.That melding has sparked a revolutionary power dynamic, promising to propel innovation while reshaping the future. Dell Technologies Inc. and the Ohio Department of Higher Education are partnering to catalyze that future.“We, as a larger state entity, are able to buy in large aggregate — happy to have four [HPC] clusters right now from Dell,” said Alan Chalker (pictured, right), program director at Ohio Supercomputer Center at the Ohio Department of Higher Education