Worldwide HPC-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) Market Forecast Update, 2017–2022

Hyperion Research forecasts that the worldwide HPC server market will reach $14.5B in 2021. Nearly half of the worldwide spend on HPC servers currently come from North America, primarily from US customers. Hyperion Research anticipates that the worldwide HPC technical server market will grow at an 8.0% CAGR over the forecast period (2020-2025) to reach nearly $20B in 2025.

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.