Episode: 34 - Discussing HPCs and Research Computing With Dirk Petersen

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Stan Gloss and Dirk Petersen discuss the role of HPCs in the context of AI and scientific computing.

In the first Trends from the Trenches episode of 2025, host Stan Gloss and Dirk Petersen, Director of Supercomputing Center at Oregon State University, talk about the state and role of HPCs in a world that’s focused on AI. Petersen offers his thoughts and insights on working with AI teams, how to converge the traditional HPC user with the AI user, the “Wild West” of AI infrastructure and computing power, and how AI is driving a renaissance in scientific computing and high-performance computin...

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Host: Stan Gloss

Guest: Dirk Petersen

Topics covered

• HPC
• AI
• research computing
• supercomputing
• scientific computing

Keywords

• high-performance computing
• AI infrastructure
• scientific computing
• supercomputing
• AI teams

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oregon State University

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