As SC26 gets underway in Chicago, the high-performance computing community is wrestling with a familiar set of pressures: soaring hardware costs, constrained power budgets, and a customer base that is shifting from traditional supercomputing sites toward GPU clouds and AI factories. For VDURA, that shift has defined the past year. In this pre-show Q&A, CEO Ken Claffey explains how the company, built on 25 years of parallel file system engineering and now running more than …