In recent years, hyperscale data centers have been optimized for scale-out stateless applications and zettabyte storage, with a focus on CPU-centric platforms. However, as the infrastructure shifts towards next-generation AI applications, the center of gravity is moving towards GPU/accelerators. This transition from "millions of small stateless applications" to "large AI applications running across clusters of GPUs" is pushing the limits of accelerators, network, memory, topologies, rack power, and other components. To keep up with this dramatic change, innovation is necessary to ensure that hyperscale data centers can continue to support the growing demands of AI applications. This keynote speech will explore the challenges and opportunities of this evolution and highlight the key areas where innovation is needed to enable the future of hyperscale data centers.

Memory and Data challenges: HPC-AI view from the energy industry 

Shell Upstream has been processing large subsurface datasets for multiple decades driving significant business value.  Many of the state of the art algorithms for this have been developed using deep domain knowledge and have benefitted from the hardware technology improvements over the years. However, the demand for more efficient processing as datasets get bigger and the algorithms become even more complex is ever-growing. This talk will focus on the memory and data management challenges for a variety of traditional HPC workflows in the energy industry. It will also cover unique challenges for accelerating modern AI-based workflows requiring new innovations.