[arcanus]

> SC in Denver's unofficial theme was Arm

I don't agree. SC's unofficial theme was AI/ML. Every single vendor and HPC center were talking AI, not all were talking ARM. The student cluster was dominated by GPUs, not a single one ran ARM.

[redshirt]

We don’t really care about ML. If just so happens ML and AI are easy compared to what HPC normally deals with. ML is just statistics and learning functions which is in turn really dominated by the linear algebra. It’s hard to hear that when you like buzzwords, but it’s just algebra and pretty simple at that. That’s why things like grad student built systolic array processors (popular in he 60’s) dominate here. It’s also why SC is showing lots of ML...because the community knows how to do that better than anybody.