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

The future of the storage industry lies in infrastructure that is graphics processing unit and artificial intelligence capable, with companies looking to revolutionize the market by addressing the evolving storage needs of customers with innovative data platforms.Current storage frameworks present challenges, such as practitioner gridlock, a skills gap and the need to reinvent infrastructure for AI, with no clear guidance on how to move data to AI and transform, according to Vaughn Stewart (pictured), vice president of systems engineering at Vast Data Inc