Beyond the Chip - The Unprecedented Infrastructure Demands of AI and HPC

Explore the fundamental infrastructure shifts required to support the unprecedented scale of AI and HPC workloads in this keynote presentation from NANOG experts at AHEAD. Examine how the rapid growth of artificial intelligence is driving non-negotiable changes across technology infrastructure, from data center facilities to network architectures. Learn about the evolution away from traditional data center approaches and understand the physical challenges posed by dramatically rising power consumption requirements. Discover the critical developments in cooling technologies necessary to manage these intensive computational environments. Dive deep into the networking backbone transformations taking place, focusing not only on speed improvements but also on the massive changes in scale, bandwidth requirements, and control mechanisms needed to successfully support next-generation HPC and AI systems. Gain insights into the immediate infrastructure decisions organizations must make to effectively power the future of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence applications.