This IDC study contains an overview of IDC's server research and high-performance computing group investigations into the emerging grid opportunity. The document consolidates early customer feedback to provide insights into the future market opportunity and also assess the areas of early traction and the challenges facing grid computing as the technology matures and vendors attempt to apply it more broadly.
"Understanding not only the foundation for grid computing but also how the technology may evolve and what other complimentary technologies may be incorporated into the solution stack are critical in assessing the market opportunity," said John Humphreys, research manager of Workstations and High-Performance Systems at IDC. "IDC is strongly committed to listen to the voices of customers in order to gain an understanding of how users are both using the technology today and how they would ultimately like to leverage grids in the future."