Abstract
This IDC study presents IDC' s annual list of the top 10 HPC market predictions
for the coming year. "2008 promises to be another year of strong growth in the
worldwide HPC market, driven by the increasing penetration of clustered
systems," said Steve Conway, IDC research vice president, Technical Computing.
"Growth rates will be highest in the lower-end market segments, whose ' ease of
everything' requirements will attract an increasing number of new products and
services. And there will be greater-than-usual technology innovation and
exploration as end users are increasingly forced to confront serious challenges
related to the ramp-up of x86 multicore parallelism."
Areas of innovation and exploration will range from alternative processor
technologies (i.e., accelerators) to software licensing models. Continued rapid
increases in average system sizes and peak computing power will stimulate
advances in storage capacity and capability, along with increased pressure to
enhance interconnects and to keep power and space usage in check. The
attractive size and growth rate of this market will heighten competition among
vendors, resulting in more choices for user/buyers and a greater need to
understand the available options.
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