Future of HPC: The Internet of Workflows

Abstract

Driven by convergence with artificial intelligence and data analytics, increased heterogeneity, and a hybrid cloud/on-premise delivery model, dynamic composition of workflows will be a key design criteria of future high-performance computing (HPC) systems. While tightly coupled HPC workloads will continue to execute on dedicated supercomputers, other jobs will run elsewhere, including public clouds, and at the edge. Connecting these distributed computing tasks into coherent applications that can perform at scale is what we call “Internet of Workflows.”