HPC vs. AI: Same Roots, Different Branches (And Why Your Data Centre Needs to Know the Difference)
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HPC vs. AI: Same Roots, Different Branches (And Why Your Data Centre Needs to Know the Difference)

HPC and AI both love parallel processing and GPUs, but that’s where the family resemblance ends. HPC runs steady, precise simulations on air‑cooled racks with low‑latency networks. AI training spikes power to 150 kW per rack, needs liquid cooling, and demands massive bandwidth. AI inference? That’s bursty, auto‑scaling, and lives on cheaper hardware.

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