Perspectives from SC23

Since the dawn of the Supercomputer Era in the 1960s, a succession of base processors (CPUs) has attempted to satisfy HPC users' nearly insatiable demands for fast solution times on a wide spectrum of challenging problems, combined with affordability and energy efficiency. Chief among these entrants were vector processors, which ruled the HPC market through the 1990s, then RISC processors, and then x86-based processors, which began their steep ascendancy at that time and continue to dominate the market today, often in tandem with GPUs or other accelerators.

Due to a shift in HPC sites' perception of HPC cloud resources available and in future roadmaps from CSPs, the HPC cloud market continues to be one of the strongest growth markets in today's HPC ecosystem. While the HPC on-premises market is not projected to dramatically change from the steady 6%-8% five-year CAGR seen in years past, the cloud market is currently showing a projected 17.6% five-year CAGR for the next five years.