Abstract
This IDC study sets the stage for our new investigations of extreme computing
practices by defining the notion of extreme computing, laying out IDC' s
motivations in calling attention to this category, articulating the market
drivers that IDC expects will stimulate extreme computing innovation, and
highlighting where IDC will focus our attention this year as we develop the
topic in our research. This is an inaugural document offered as a guide to
planned IDC coverage of developments at the leading edge of technical and
enterprise datacenter computing that may find their way into the market.
According to Earl Joseph, IDC program vice president: "Datacenters have entered
a period of difficult, and in some cases disruptive, challenges and are
exploring a vast range of new technologies to address these issues."
Commercial and technical datacenters will always have some distinct
requirements - commercial computing is often measured in transactions per
second, while a single technical computing problem may take hours, days, weeks,
months, or even years to complete - but the major issues are converging for the
two types of datacenters. What' s needed to address these daunting issues is
innovation. It is the job of IDC' s Extreme Computing initiative, in close
collaboration with datacenter personnel, users, and vendors, to collect and
disseminate information about promising advances in datacenter practices and
technologies. IDC expects datacenter challenges to increase in intensity in the
near term, but we are confident that the innovations achieved to address these
challenges will ultimately transform and define the future of datacenter
operations.
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