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

September 18, 2019|Addison Snell, Christopher G. Willard Ph.D., Laura Segervall

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This Intersect360 Research report presents the software segment of the 2018 total market model and five-year forecast for the overall High Performance
Computing (HPC) market, segmented into constituent categories: system software, middleware, developer tools, storage management software, licensed
application software, transfer costs for internal software, and other. 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: 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, this report): 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)

As a whole, software is the segment in which we see the most variability in spending patterns between vertical markets and application domains. Engineering-driven
domains, such as manufacturing or electronics, have a high proportion of licensed applications and therefore tend to pay much more for software than
their counterparts in other vertical markets. In 2018, the highest-growth software category was developer tools, as HPC users incorporating machine
learning libraries and other tools for the adoption of AI. In the five-year forecast, we see regression to the mean for most software categories, though
growth in licensed application software will be suppressed by a slow, long-term trend toward open-source and in-house software. Storage software will
also see slow growth, as trends in tiered storage make parallel file systems relatively less important by the end of the forecast period.

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
Big Data trends
Government programs or investment in HPC
Artificial Intelligence / AI
Deep Learning / Machine Learning

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