Big Compute Podcast: Accelerating HPC Workflows with AI

In a Big Compute Podcast episode, Gabriel Broner interviews Dave Turek, IBM's Vice President of HPC and Cognitive Systems, to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming high-performance computing (HPC) workflows. AI's growth, driven by innovation and increased compute capacity, offers significant opportunities for enhancing simulations and analyzing results, potentially replacing traditional simulations in some instances. Turek emphasizes the integration of AI and HPC as a unified approach to improving workflows and solving complex problems more efficiently, citing examples from the pharmaceutical and chemical industries where AI dramatically reduced computing requirements. The discussion also covers the democratization of AI, enabling smaller companies to compete with larger ones by automating processes and accessing advanced technologies through cloud services. The conversation concludes with insights into the future of HPC and AI, highlighting the need to embrace emerging tools and frameworks that will become integral to analysts' toolkits in the coming years.