Updated Worldwide HPC Server Market Status and Forecast, 2019–2024, Including Covid-19 Impacts

The cloud market for HPC has undergone a fundamental shift in the past two years. Historically, user sites treated cloud resources primarily as additional to on-premises HPC systems to address peaks in workload demand. Generally, funds for HPC cloud resources were separate from the HPC system budgets and were not commonly critical components in future system procurement planning. Over the past two years, that paradigm has changed dramatically. Hyperion Research has conducted a number of studies that suggest cloud is becoming a major component in future resource planning for many HPC user sites. Many sites are now weighing cloud next to on-premises procurement strategies and altering the size and timing of future on-premises deployments to increase their budget for cloud resources.

Hyperion Research forecasts that the worldwide HPC server market will grow at a 9.7% CAGR to reach more than $19.5 billion in 2022, up from $12.2 billion in 2017 (see Figure 1). In 2022, the North American HPC server market will be, as it is today, the largest single market with 40% of global share, but the over 15% CAGR between 2017 and 2022 for the Asia/Pacific region and Japan will be the largest for all regions tracked.