EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This Intersect360 Research report presents the 2016 total market model and five-year forecast for the overall High Performance Computing (HPC) market,
segmented into vertical markets. The forecast horizon is from 2017 through 2021, with compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) using 2016 as a base.
Other Intersect360 Research reports provide forecast segmentations by product category (servers, storage, services, software, networking, cloud, and other),
server class (entry-level, mid-range, high-end, supercomputer), geographic region, and economic sectors, as well as vendor shares for the current year
for servers and for storage.
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 separately tracks the hyperscale market, which consists of arbitrarily scalable, web-facing application infrastructure in excess of $1 million
of annual spending from a given site.
Some of the key findings of this report include:
- The total worldwide HPC market (servers, storage, software, etc.) reached $35.6 billion in 2016, up 3.5% from 2015.
- Intersect360 Research projects HPC revenue compound annual growth rate to be 4.3% CAGR from 2016 to 2021, reaching $43.9 billion at the end of the
forecast period.
- Financial services, the largest single commercial market, contributed over $300 million of growth in 2016. Academia, the largest segment overall, was
relatively flat compared to other vertical markets.
- The chemical engineering segment and the financial services segment will be important ones to watch over the next few years. We anticipate expanded
use of HPC in chemical engineering, as simulation expands more beyond process modeling and into the discovery arena. Financial services, already
the largest commercial segment, will continue to grow in risk management applications, and it is also one of the leading markets in the adoption
of artificial intelligence and machine learning.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY……….. 1
TECHNOLOGIES COVERED IN THIS REPORT……….. 2
INTRODUCTION……….. 4
Vertical Market Definitions…….. 4
What Is HPC?…….. 6
HPC 2016 TOTAL MARKET MODEL: VERTICAL MARKETS……….. 7
2016 Market Performance…….. 7
2016–2021 HPC MARKET FORECAST: VERTICAL MARKETS……….. 9
End-User Research: Budget Growth and Expectations…….. 11
Average Expected Budget Change…….. 12
CONCLUSIONS……….. 13
APPENDIX A: METHODOLOGY……….. 14
Methodology Updates…….. 14
APPENDIX B: HPC MARKET DYNAMICS MODEL AND FUNDAMENTAL FORECAST ASSUMPTIONS……….. 16
Market Maturity…….. 16
Fundamental Market Dynamics Model…….. 16
Fundamental Market Assumptions…….. 18
Fundamental Drivers…….. 18
Fundamental Market Dampeners…….. 19
Model-Based Assumptions…….. 20
Basic Market Drivers…….. 20
Basic Market Dampeners…….. 20