HPC Site Budget Map: Budget Expectations – May 2019

May 9, 2019|Addison Snell, Christopher G. Willard Ph.D., Laura Segervall

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Intersect360 Research surveyed the High Performance Computing (HPC) user community to complete its eleventh Site Budget Allocation Map, a look at how HPC
sites divide and spend their budgets. We surveyed users on their spending in seven top-level categories: hardware, software, facilities, staffing,
services, cloud/utility/outsourcing computing, and other. Each category was further divided into constituent subcategories, resulting in 27 unique
items included in the analysis. Additionally, the respondents were asked about their future budget expectations.

This report examines the change in budget from the prior year, expected budget change over the next year, and key areas in which users see significant
changes occurring over the next year.

In 2018, most budgets either increased (46%) or remained the same (38%) from the prior year. Only a small percentage (16%) reported a decrease in their
budgets. Commercial sites reported the strongest growth with academic and government reporting more modest growth from the prior year.

Outlook for future budget increases remains positive with a bit of slowing from last year, primarily at academic sites and in EMEA. About 51% of all respondents
expect their budgets to increase by 1% or more over the next year, compared to 62% in 2017. For all responses, the average estimated increase based
on the midpoint is 2.8%.

Our Budget Map survey results can be found in multiple reports, including the following:

HPC Site Budget Allocation Map: Industry Averages
HPC Site Budget Allocation Map: Machine Learning’s Impact on HPC Budgets

TECHNOLOGIES COVERED IN THIS REPORT

HPC system elements
Storage elements
Software elements
Facilities-level technologies
Services
Cloud computing, grid computing, utility computing

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