The (Resilient) HPC Market Writ Large in 100-plus Slides by Hyperion
By John Russell
June 28, 2021
Hyperion Research delivered its annual ISC 2021 HPC market update and this year’s version comprised a 100-plus slide survey of the landscape presented by six analysts. We won’t cover all 100-plus slides. Bottom line: Despite the pandemic, the broad 2020 HPC on-premise market (servers, storage, et al.) edged very slightly up (~1.1 percent) to $27.75 billion, while HPC in the cloud jumped (~10 percent) to $4.3 billion. Hyperion is calling a slight dip next year before returning to growth.
“The year actually turned out positive and it was positive because the Fugaku machine, which was on the order of a billion dollars, actually changed the market from [being] down by 7-to-8 percent to be up just slightly,” said Earl Joseph, CEO, Hyperion. Besides Fugaku, which came online during the pandemic and has remained atop the Top500 list since, there was server strength at the high-end