The potential of high-performance computing for the Internet of Sounds

High-Performance Computing (HPC) technology is impacting several industries, including the creative industries and those operating in the Internet of Things. However, thus far, scarce attention has been devoted by researchers to the use of such technology in Internet of Sounds (IoS) settings. The IoS is a new area emerging in industry and academia as an extension of the IoT to the sonic domain, both in musical and non-musical contexts. The IoS relates to a distributed network of sound things, which are devices capable of sensing, acquiring, processing, actuating, and exchanging data serving the purpose of communicating sound-related information. In this position paper, we investigate the integration of HPC technology with the IoS. We illustrate such integration via a set of application scenarios showing how the IoS can benefit from HPC. Finally, we discuss the open challenges ahead of us to implement a successful integration of these two kinds of technology.