🔬HPC Market Review from ANNA Systems Team
⚙️HPC is one of the most dynamically developing in the IT industry. According to Intersect360 RESEARCH, the market volume 9 will exceed 37 billion US dollars in 2019 and will grow with a further annual growth of 2-5%, which, with an average annual growth of the global IT industry in the period 2014-2019 by 3%, highlights HPC market as one of the main drivers for the growth of the global IT market in the near future. HPC market will reach $ 44 billion by 2021. According to IDC's assessment, the return on investment (ROI) for the reporting period 2013-2014 amounted to $ 515 per 1 dollar invested. It allows us to define HPC market in terms of investment as one of the most attractive in the IT industry both in the short and long term.
⚙️The structure of the global HPC market is shifting towards industrial business. Manufacturing business represented 47.3% in overall structure in 2015 (bioengineering, CAE, chemistry, EDV/ISV/IT, geo-engineering, mechanical engineering, automotive, etc) . The share of state research institutes and military-defense enterprises accounted for 29%. Universities and institutions engaged in fundamental studies and weather forecast occupied 22% of the market. Business industry will become the main source of market growth in the next five years. The share of government customers against the growing presence of industrial business sector in the market will reduce to 26%.
⚙️Our team is strongly convinced that the traditional market of high-performance computing in the near future (until 2020) should undergo significant developments due to the change of existing business model from the closed solutions of PACs installed in the buildings of corporations and research institutes to the model of development and expansion of cloud services of high-performance computing. The new business model will open the market to new consumer sectors, with a total volume comparable or even larger than the traditional market (~$35 billion in 2018). The market of high-performance cloud services with growth rates of ~21% annually will reach $ 22 billion by 2023.
