Worldwide High Performance Computing 2018 Total Market Model and 2019–2023 Forecast: Regions

September 9, 2019|, ,

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This Intersect360 Research report presents the 2018 total market model and five-year forecast for the overall High Performance Computing (HPC) market,
segmented into geographic regions: North America (U.S. and Canada), EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Asia-Pacific, and Latin America. The
forecast horizon is from 2019 through 2023, with compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) using 2018 as a base.

Intersect360 Research defines HPC as the use of servers, clusters, and supercomputers—plus associated software, tools, components, storage, and
services—for scientific, engineering, or analytical tasks that are particularly intensive in computation, memory usage, or data management.
Intersect360 Research reports available in this series include the following segmentations:

  • Products and Services: servers, storage, networks, software, service, cloud, other
  • Economic sectors:industry, government, academia
  • Vertical markets:academia, national security, national research labs, national agencies, state or local governments, bio sciences, chemical
    engineering, consumer product manufacturing, electronics, energy, financial services, large product manufacturing, media and entertainment, retail,
    transportation, other
  • Regions (this report):North America, EMEA, Asia-Pacific, Latin America
  • Server class (HPC server revenue): entry-level, midrange, high-end, supercomputer
  • Cloud categories (HPC cloud revenue):raw cycles, cloud storage, application hosting (SaaS), infrastructure hosting (IaaS, PaaS), other
  • Software categories (HPC software revenue):operating environments, developer tools, middleware, storage software, transfer costs, application
    software, other
  • Services categories (HPC services revenue):maintenance and repair, system engineering, system integration, training, programming services,
    other
  • HPC server market shares(current year only, not forecast)
  • HPC storage market shares(current year only, not forecast)

Total HPC market revenue was $36.1 billion in 2018, growing 3.2% over 2017. This was the ninth consecutive year of growth for the HPC market. 2018
saw a continuation of regional trends from previous years, which we expect to continue through the forecast period. Asia-Pacific continues to have
the highest growth rate of the three major regions, driven by increasing investment in China. Latin America has the highest overall growth rate
in 2018 and the 2019 to 2023 forecast, albeit from a small base.

TECHNOLOGIES COVERED IN THIS REPORT:

  • HPC system elements
    • Systems, clusters
    • Server technologies
  • Storage elements
    • Storage systems
  • Interconnect elements
    • System interconnects
  • Software elements
    • Operating systems
  • Services
  • Cloud computing, grid computing, utility computing
  • Other technology trends
    • Artificial intelligence and machine learning trends
    • Big Data trends
    • Government programs or investment in HPC

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

What Is HPC?

HPC 2018 TOTAL MARKET MODEL: REGIONS

2018 Market Performance 

Table 1: Total HPC Market Revenue ($000), 2018 vs. 2017, by Geographic Region 

Figure 1: Total HPC Market Revenue Share, 2018, by Geographic Region 

2018–2023 HPC MARKET FORECAST: ECONOMIC SECTORS

Table 2: Total HPC Market Revenue ($000), 2018 Actuals, 2019 to 2023 Forecast, by Region 

Figure 2: Total HPC Market Revenue ($000), 2018 Actuals, 2019 to 2023 Forecast, by Region 

CONCLUSIONS

APPENDIX A: METHODOLOGY

Methodology Updates 

APPENDIX B: HPC MARKET DYNAMICS MODEL AND FUNDAMENTAL FORECAST ASSUMPTIONS

Market Maturity 

Fundamental Market Dynamics Model 

Figure A1: Traditional HPC Market Dynamics 

Fundamental Market Assumptions 

Fundamental Drivers 

Fundamental Market Dampeners 

Model-Based Assumptions 

Basic Market Drivers 

Basic Market Dampeners 

 

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