The document summarizes trends in the worldwide high performance computing (HPC) market from 2016-2021. It finds that the HPC market grew to $11.2 billion in 2016, with supercomputers over $500k growing the most. The top vendors in 2016 were HPE, Dell, IBM, Cray, and Lenovo. The document forecasts continued growth in the broader HPC market reaching over $30 billion by 2021. It also forecasts growth in HPC-based machine learning, deep learning, and AI, with that market reaching $6.6 billion by 2021. The document concludes that while HPC provides very high returns on investment, software and storage access remain major challenges for customers.
1. Trends in the
Worldwide HPC Market
September 2017
Earl Joseph, Steve Conway,
Bob Sorensen and Mike Thorp
2. Hyperion HPC Activities – Same As Before!
• Track all HPC servers sold each quarter
• 4 HPC User Forum meetings each year
• Publish 85 plus research reports each year
• Visit all major supercomputer sites & write reports
• Assist in collaborations between buyers/users and vendors
• Assist governments in HPC plans, strategies and direction
• Assist buyers/users in planning and procurements
• Maintain 5 year forecasts in many areas/topics
• Developing a worldwide ROI measurement system
• HPDA program (includes ML/DL/AI)
• HPC Cloud usage tracking
• Quarterly tracking of GPUs/accelerators
• Cyber Security
3. Hyperion Research Overview
§ We are fully separated from IDC & Oceanwide
• An IT purge has removed our work & info from IDC
records
§ All IDC HPC assets, reports, data, etc. have
been transferred to Hyperion
• Access to non-HPC data from IDC is also included
§ Hyperion is tasked to keep doing 100% of what
the IDC HPC team was doing before
• Plus we can add new areas