The democratization of high-performance computing

With the reducing costs of commodity hardware and their increasing performance capabilities, high-performance computing is not something exclusive to tech giants these days. Today, it is very easily possible for any single person to set up for their personal use a network of computing devices to facilitate high-performance computing if they're not already satisfied with the exceptional performance that can be delivered through single devices. However, investing in hardware is not the only way of availing high-performance computing. The emergence of cloud-based computing solutions has resulted in very high-speed computing infrastructure available with click-deploy methods. Users can, at any moment, launch a cloud-based instance over the network and run their performance-intensive software on it at minimal charges.

With high-performance computing becoming readily available to individual developers, the development of AI solutions has come into the hands of a wide community of developers. This has led to a boom in the number of creative and research-based applications of AI.

Let's now unravel the most popular form of AI as of the time of writing and discuss some important concepts regarding it.