Overview of the High‑Performance Computing Cloud (HPC Cloud) Whitepaper

On September 23, 2021, the Supercomputing Innovation Alliance held its 2020‑2021 annual meeting in Lanzhou, Gansu, and officially released the "High‑Performance Computing Cloud (HPC Cloud) Whitepaper".

The whitepaper defines HPC Cloud as a service model that combines high‑performance computing (the core service) with cloud computing technologies (the innovative delivery method) and multi‑cloud interconnect as an extensible capability. It emphasizes deep integration with big data, artificial intelligence, and industry‑specific applications to provide unified intelligent computing services.

According to product form, HPC Cloud is divided into three categories:

Supercomputing Cloud – supercomputing resources form the base, delivered through cloud service models.

Cloud Supercomputing – general‑purpose cloud resources serve as the base for tenant‑specific HPC services.

Multi‑Cloud Interconnect – enables resource, data, application, and service coordination across different HPC clouds with unified management.

The whitepaper introduces a reference architecture that combines the capabilities of supercomputing cloud, cloud supercomputing, and multi‑cloud interconnect, covering infrastructure, platform, service, operation‑management & security, and multi‑cloud management layers.

Market analysis predicts that by 2024 the global HPC Cloud market will reach USD 88 billion, growing at a CAGR of 17.6% from 2019, and that HPC Cloud will account for 18.7% of the overall HPC market (approximately USD 470 billion).

In addition, the whitepaper examines industry applications such as energy exploration, industrial simulation, multimedia, life sciences, meteorology, and materials research, and discusses trends like cloud‑native HPC, AI integration, green computing, and service‑oriented security.

Download links for the whitepaper are provided via a WeChat account (reply "HPC‑Cloud" to receive the link) and through the alliance’s online repository.