HPC and AI Computing in the Cloud or On-Prem: Trade-Offs, Tools and Tips

The challenges of HPC and AI continue to require more creative and reliable solutions. As we move more and more critical workloads to large HPC and AI clusters, security, utilization and reliability become far more important. As new technologies increase functionality and flexibility, the expertise needed to manage, power, cool and maintain the systems becomes far more important as well.

Cloud HPC and AI computing helps to account for not just efficient utilization of high value computing resources, but also the scarce expertise needed to effectively build and manage those systems.

In this discussion, we will present an overview of the decision factors involved in choosing between on-prem and cloud HPC services as well as the tools and expertise needed to effectively implement and run them.