Description
When respondents were asked to identify specific system attributes for which they would be willing to pay a 10-15% premium on top of system price, the most desirable attributes were faster or higher performance processors (48%), and larger or faster memory (39%). More than one third of respondents were willing to pay a premium for higher performance external I/O and storage interconnects between nodes (35%) and better density, power, or cooling attributes (32%). In contrast, only a small percentage (9%) expressed a willingness to pay a premium for a specific vendor, and about one in ten indicated that they would not be willing to pay a 10-15% premium for any specific attribute/feature. This data is from an annual study that is part of the eighth edition of Hyperion Research’s HPC end-user-based tracking of the HPC marketplace. It included 181 HPC end-user sites with 3,830 HPC systems.
