SC'25 recap
The annual SC conference was held last week, drawing over 16,000 registrants and 560 exhibitors to St. Louis, Missouri to talk about high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and science. It was my tenth time attending in-person (12th overall), and as is always the case, it was a great week to reconnect with colleagues, hear what people are worrying about, and get a finger on the pulse of the now-rapidly changing HPC industry. Outside the SC'25 convention center on the only clear day of the week. Although every SC I've attended always felt a little different from the previous year, this one felt quite different. Part of that results from my own personal circumstances: this is the first year I attended as an employee of VAST Data, and so the people with whom I met and the technical problems to which I paid attention were certainly biased towards those most relevant to my work. But the backdrop of the whole con...
