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HPC · High-Performance Computing

The scientific supercomputing tradition AI clusters descend from — gang scheduling, low-latency fabrics, parallel filesystems — now repurposed for training at scale.

Current numbers

up to ~2,000 A (typical peak, per Vicor)Peak core current Vicor calls typical for AI/HPC processors at sub-1 V; the newest parts exceed it at full poweras of 2026-10 · register ↗
~70% / ~20% / ~10%AI/HPC scheduler share: Slurm / Kubernetes / in-house (rule of thumb)as of 2026-05-15 · register ↗

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