Why HPC Storage At The Edge Is A More Viable Option
insideHPC, Friday, June 23, 2023
The edge is growing fast. Deloitte predicts that the enterprise market for edge computing will see 22 percent growth in 2023, in comparison to 4 percent in spending on enterprise networking equipment and 6 percent on overall enterprise IT.
This growth is not surprising given how data centers at the edge have the potential to improve productivity for emerging, bandwidth-intensive business applications, speed up real-time decision making and reduce IT costs. However, edge IT deployments - particularly HPC-class edge computing and data storage - pose special requirements that must be taken into consideration.
A key element in growth at the edge is physics; the concept of data gravity has always been the biggest limitation to data movement. And in high-performance computing (HPC), where massive data volumes are the norm, this is a particularly significant challenge. The larger the dataset, the trickier it is to manage. The ability to process, move, and store data at the edge therefore becomes a highly valuable option.