How has life after leaving the Labs been going?
June 2024 marked two years since I left my job at one of the world's most prestigious government HPC centers for a job in one of the world's largest technology corporations . In that time, the world of HPC has changed dramatically; just six months after I started, ChatGPT was released and triggered a gold rush in AI that is now overshadowing traditional scientific computing. This shift brought about massive HPC deployments led by hyperscalers, challenging the long-held belief that only national governments could deploy and operate world-leading supercomputers. My experiences at ISC'24 this past summer made clear to me that the traditional HPC community is now rethinking their role the industry, and some individuals who built their careers in public HPC are revisiting their assumption that world-class HPC systems are limited to the public institutions that have historically dominated the top of the Top500 list . I had no idea things would unfold this way when I left my job
