HPC Cloud Forecast 2020-2025

Hyperion Research forecasts that the worldwide HPC server-based AI market will expand at a robust 27.1% CAGR from 2017-2022 to reach $1.6 billion in 2022, up more than four-and-a-half-fold from $346 million in 2016, the first year in which we tracked this figure. We define the HPC AI market as a subset of the high-performance data analysis (HPDA) market that includes machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) and other AI workloads running on HPC servers.

As AI and Big Data/HPDA applications continue to grow in importance and focus for HPC data centers and users worldwide, the demand for dedicated HPDA and AI systems are increasing at a rate nearly double that of the overall HPC market. By 2025, Hyperion Research expects roughly one-third of all system revenue to be dedicated to HPDA and AI-centric systems, in a category defined as Data[1]Centric HPC Systems. The portion of the data-centric market focused on AI applications is experiencing even higher growth, nearly 23% CAGR over the five year period, driven by the influx of AI workloads not only for new application spaces but also as a supplemental tool for the traditional simulations that have dominated the HPC space for decades. Some important HPDA workloads require analytics alone, while many benefit from combining established simulation and newer analytics methods, especially machine and deep learning.