
- The Top of All Things in HPC, 2017 Site Census Snapshot Analysis, April 2018
- HPC User Site Census: System Suppliers, April 2018
- Worldwide High Performance Computing 2016 Total Market Model and Forecast: Vertical Markets, March 2018
- Worldwide High Performance Computing Servers 2016 Total Market Model and Forecast: Server Class, March 2018
- Worldwide High Performance Computing 2016 Total Market Model and 2017–2021 Forecast: Regions, March 2018
- Huawei Brings HPC Solutions to Cloud and AI, November 2017
- HPC Application Support for GPU Computing , November 2017
- Worldwide High Performance Computing 2016 Total Market Model and 2017–2021 Forecast: Products an, October 2017
- Worldwide High Performance Computing 2016 Total Market Model and 2017–2021 Forecast: Economic Se, October 2017
- HPC User Site Census: All Networks, June 2017
- HPC Market Model and Forecast: 2016 to 2021 Snapshot Analysis, June 2017
- HPC User Site Census: Storage Suppliers, May 2017
- HPC User Site Census: System Suppliers, April 2017
- USCC Testimony: China's Pursuit of Next Frontier Tech, March 2017
- The Top of All Things in HPC 2016 Site Census Snapshot Analysis, January 2017
- Worldwide High Performance Computing Vertical Market 2015–2020 Forecast, December 2016
- Worldwide High Performance Computing (HPC) 2015 Total Market Model and 2016–2020 Forecast, September 2016
- 2015 HPC User Site Census: Applications, July 2016
- HPC User Site Census: Middleware – Management Software, July 2016
- HPC User Site Census: Life Cycles, July 2016
- HPC Market Model and Forecast: 2015 to 2020 Snapshot Analysis, June 2016
- The Hyperscale Market: Definition, Scope and Market Dynamics , April 2016
- HPC Budget Allocation Map: Budget Expectations, March 2016
- HPC Budget Allocation Map: HPC Budget Distribution, January 2016
- HPC Application Support for GPU Computing, November 2015
- Accelerated Computing: A Tipping Point for HPC, November 2015
- HPC User Site Census: Storage Suppliers , November 2015
- HPC User Site Census: Processors, October 2015
- HPC User Site Census: All Networks, October 2015
- HPC User Site Census: System Suppliers, August 2015
- High-Performance Interconnects: “Performance” is Still HPC’s Middle Name , July 2015
- Worldwide High Performance Computing 2014 Total Market Model and 2015–2019 Forecast, June 2015
- HPC Budget Allocation Map: Industry Averages, June 2015
- HPC User Site Census: Storage, May 2015
- HPC User Site Census: Systems Snapshot Analysis, April 2015
- HPC User Site Census: Systems, March 2015
- Top Six Predictions for HPC in 2015, February 2015
- HPC User Site Census: Middleware Snapshot Analysis, October 2014
- The Exascale Effect: the Benefits of Supercomputing Investment for U.S. Industry, October 2014
- This Week in HPC: HPC Gets the Drop on Design Simulation — A Collaboration With Dell, Intel, and Alt, September 2014
- HPC User Site Census: Applications, September 2014
- HPC Market Model and Forecast 2013 to 2018 Snapshot Analysis, August 2014
- HPC Budget Allocation Map: Industry Averages Snapshot Analysis, August 2014
- HPC User Site Census: Systems Snapshot Analysis, August 2014
- HPC Market Model and Forecast 2013 to 2018: Systems Snapshot Analysis, July 2014
- Worldwide High Performance Computing 2013 Total Market Model and 2014–18 Forecast , June 2014
- HPC500 Group Call: The Impact of the IBM/Lenovo Deal on HPC, June 2014
- This Week in HPC: IBM Edge Conference in Las Vegas, May 2014
- This Week in HPC: Altair's Bill Nitzberg Discusses Heartbleed in HPC, May 2014
- HPC User Site Census: Middleware, April 2014
- HPC Budget Allocation Map: Industry Averages, April 2014
- HPC User Site Census: Storage, January 2014
- HPC User Site Census: Systems Snapshot Analysis, November 2013
- HPC User Site Census: Processors, October 2013
- HPC User Site Census: Systems, July 2013
- HPC Cloud Forecast Snapshot Analysis, July 2013
- HPC User Site Census: Demographics, July 2013
- Worldwide High Performance Computing 2012 Total Market Model and 2013-17 Forecast, May 2013
- HPC Accelerator Usage Snapshot Anaylsis, May 2013
- Top Ten HPC Research Insights from 2012, March 2013
- HPC User Site Census: Interconnects and Networks, March 2013
- HPC Budget Allocation Map: Industry Averages Snapshot Anaylsis, March 2013
- Budget Allocation Map: Industry Averages, January 2013
- HPC User Site Census: Middleware Snapshot Analysis , December 2012
- HPC User Site Census: Middleware, December 2012
- HPC User Site Census: Storage, August 2012
- Worldwide High Performance Computing (HPC) 2011 Total Market Model and 2012-16 Forecast: Overview, June 2012
- HPC User Site Census: Systems, June 2012
- HPC Budget Allocation Map: Budget Expectations, May 2012
- HPC Budget Allocation Map: Industry Averages, March 2012
- Top Ten HPC Research Insights from 2011 , January 2012
- HPC Market Update: Industry Growth to Fall Short in 2011, December 2011
- Cloud Computing in HPC: Barriers to Adoption, September 2011
- User Site Census: Primary Applications at HPTC Sites, August 2011
- Cloud Computing in HPC: Rationale for Adoption, July 2011
- HPC Total Market Forecast for 2011 through 2015: Economic Sectors and Vertical Markets, June 2011
- Cloud Computing in HPC: Usage and Types, June 2011
- 2011-2015 HPC Total Market Forecast, April 2011
- HPC User Site Census: Interconnects and Networks, April 2011
- HPC User Site Census: Systems, March 2011
- High Performance Business Computing in Financial Institutions , February 2011
- HPC User Site Census: Storage, December 2010
- HPC Budget Allocation Map: Industry Averages, October 2010
- Adoption of Cloud Resources for High Performance Computing: Barriers, Drivers, and Rationale, October 2010
- HPC User Site Census: Processors, September 2010
- Modeling and Simulation among U.S. Manufacturers: The Case for Digital Manufacturing, September 2010
- Intersect360 Research User Site Census: Applications, July 2010
- Intersect360 Research Traditional HPC Total Market Forecast: 2010 to 2014, June 2010
- Intersect360 Research Site Census Report – Storage, February 2010
- HPC User Site Census: Interconnects/Networks, January 2010
- HPC User Site Census: Processors, December 2009
- Cloud Computing Opportunities in HPC, December 2009
- HPC User Site Census: Systems, September 2009
- Traditional HPC Total Market Forecast: 2009 to 2013 , September 2009
- HPC Site Budget Allocation Map: Economic Sectors, July 2009
- Traditional HPC 2008 Market Model: May 2009, May 2009
- 2008 Technical HPC Server Market Review, April 2009
- Risks and Rewards: SGI Sells Out to Rackable, April 2009
- InfiniBand: Increases in Speed, Usage, Competition, March 2009
- HPC User Site Census: Application Software, March 2009
Our Research Methodology
Intersect360 Research is a market intelligence, research and consulting advisory practice focused on suppliers, users and policy makers across the High Productivity Computing ecosystem. Intersect360 Research has been formed to provide deep insight and perspective around the dynamics of the current and emerging HPC market segment, including trends and influences affecting customer behavior, and technology adoption.
The number-one goal at Intersect360 Research is to deliver data and opinions that are actionable. For market intelligence to be worthwhile, it has to give the recipient the ability to make more informed decisions, leading to demonstrable return on investment.
Voice of the User
Intersect360 Research achieves its differentiation by activating the voice of the user in the HPC community. Our passion to understand the motivations, challenges, and preferences that drive user behavior is what creates value in our market intelligence service. If you're a vendor, it can be the difference between knowing what your prospective users bought last year and what they'll be buying three years from now. If you're a user, it means your opinions are driving the future of HPC development.
Until today, most market research has been supply-side focused, providing statistics such as revenue, units, or market share. This creates a snapshot of a market at a moment in time, but these static images don't tell a story. Comprehensive market intelligence requires an integration of demand-side data, user-centric research that puts the picture of the market in a dynamic context.
Research Outside the Box
Our 360-degree research approach applies as much to the technologies themselves as it does to the organizations creating, selling, and using them. Just as we consider multiple perspectives in analyzing the direction of the industry, we also take a broad view toward the products and features that comprise a high-productivity computing environment.
The dramatic shift toward clusters of industry-standard building blocks has moved more and more differentiation outside the base server platform. File systems, accelerators, programming models, debuggers - all of these, and many more, are part of the productivity equation. By supplementing the Intersect360 advisory service with additional comprehensive research studies, Intersect360 Research offers you access to the research you need to guide your own path to HPC success.
Intersect360 Research Surveys
Anchoring our service are two comprehensive surveys of the worldwide HPC user community that are run annually -- the HPC User Site Census and the HPC User Site Budget Map
In the Site Census survey, users are asked to provide information on the hardware and software that comprise their HPC environments, including servers, processors, accelerators, networks, storage, operating systems, middleware, and application software. For systems we also ask questions on when the system was first installed and when it was last updated. From this information we are able to provide insights and forward-looking guidance on topics such as average cluster sizes, product life cycles, and new technology adoption rates.
In the Budget Map survey, HPC buyers indicate their current level of spending and their expected change in budget in the coming years. More significantly, they provide a breakdown of spending into major categories -- hardware, software, staffing, facilities, services, and utility computing -- along with further breakdowns within each category (e.g., within the software category: operating systems, compilers and tools, middleware, storage software, application licenses). Any category or item can be marked "Not In Budget," meaning that the funds for that category or item come from beyond the HPC budget. The Budget Map survey helps us construct accurate total market models, as well as providing insights on critical spending issues and trends, such as facilities restrictions and the uptake of cloud computing in HPC.
If you are an HPC user organization who is interested in filling out these surveys to gain access to our research, you are invited to apply for inclusion in the HPC500. If you are an HPC vendor or agency who is interested in the results and insights from these and other surveys, we invite you to contact us for information on becoming an Intersect360 Research client.
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