HPSFCon 2026 Recap: CPUs, GPUs, and TPUs Under One Roof: The Co-Scheduling Challenge for Modern HPC – Phani Pendurthi, Mastercard

The heterogeneous compute era is no longer coming — it’s here. As AI workloads flood into HPC environments, systems must simultaneously manage CPUs running legacy simulation code, GPUs handling deep learning, and increasingly, TPUs purpose-built for systolic array operations. At HPSFCon 2026, Phani Pendurthi from Mastercard brought an industry practitioner’s perspective to this challenge.