High Performance Computing is a massive industry ($55 billion by 2024) that is the lifeblood of research and science innovation. From supersonic jets to developing cures for pandemics – research engineers rely on HPC for algorithmically complex workloads running on massive datasets.

Today this HPC industry is still running mostly on-prem in supercomputers and Linux clusters in private datacenters. But the rate of specialized architectures, the diversity of options for simulation software, and the general pressure to bring more agility to research engineers to rival the “developer experience” their enterprise software developers face – has created a massive surge in moving HPC workloads to the cloud.

Big Compute sponsor, Rescale, analyzed the aggregated data of more than 300 customers to generate insights leading high performance computing practitioners. This inaugural Big Compute report reveals the drivers behind the massive cloud transformation wave that is overtaking the HPC domain.