This IDC study provides guidance to high-performance computing (HPC) professionals as they negotiate a complex set of challenges. Driven by the belief that successful nations and large enterprises require high-performance computing techn ...

This IDC update provides an interesting perspective on the longer-term trends in the high-performance computing (HPC) market, by showing IDC's tracking of the worldwide HPC or technical server market over a 20-year time frame, using IDC' ...

On a recent trip to China, IDC's HPC team asked the head of a large Chinese HPC center how he dealt with so many users who were brand new to HPC. He answered, "New to HPC is fairly easy. New to Lustre is hard." IDC's worldwide end-user rese ...

This IDC Buyer Case Study discusses the supercomputing center at SUSU in Chelyabinsk. Chelyabinsk is a city of over 1 million people, located just east of the Ural Mountains on the border between Europe and Asia. The city is one of Russi ...

This IDC Insight describes how HPDA solutions have been used in the National Library of Medicine's (NLM's) Visible Human Project and the DARPA Virtual Soldier Project.

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This IDC Presentation — IDC's market analysis perspective (MAP) on technical computing high-performance computing (HPC) — provides an update on the overall HPC market, including IDC's five-year forecast. The presentation shows HPC market ...

At SC12, Janice Elliot provided an overall summary of the decade-long HPCS program that was started in 2002. The third and final phase, which started in 2006, is now completed with the prototype systems up and running.The HPCS program goals ...

This IDC Presentation highlights Earl Joseph's presentation on November 12, 2012, at SC12 in Salt Lake City, Utah.: The Presentation covered two main topics: an update on the overall HPC market including IDC's five-year forecast and ...

The system was installed at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SBU). Founded in 1957, SBU is a member of the Association of American Universities and one of four university centers in the State of New York.The system is of mod ...

This IDC update summarizes the presentations on the economic value of HPC in science and industry that took place at the 48th HPC User Forum meeting. The meeting was held at the Dearborn Inn in Dearborn, Michigan, September 17–19, 2012. ...

This IDC update summarizes presentations on pioneering uses of HPC that took place at the 48th HPC User Forum meeting. The meeting was held at the Dearborn Inn in Dearborn, Michigan, September 17–19, 2012. The principal theme of the meet ...

This IDC update documents the panel session on potentially disruptive technologies that took place at the 48th HPC User Forum meeting. The meeting was held at the Dearborn Inn in Dearborn, Michigan, September 17–19, 2012. The principal t ...

This IDC study explores the potential impact of the latest generation of large-scale supercomputers that are just now becoming available to researchers in the United States and around the world. These systems, along with the ones planned ...

This IDC Buyer Case Study explores petascale supercomputing at the Supercomputing Division of the Information Technology Center, University of Tokyo. The Supercomputing Division is one of the top Japanese supercomputing centers, and it h ...

The global race toward leadership in high-performance computing (HPC) is afoot. Several countries and regions, including the U.S., Europe, China, Russia, and Japan, are investing heavily in developing capabilities for extreme-scale HPC. The ...

This IDC Insight takes a look at how Fujitsu was able to build the world's fastest computer in record time. Fujitsu surprised the HPC world last year with its announcement that the K computer at RIKEN was installed ahead of schedule, a f ...

Following 18 months in which Japan and China fielded the world's fastest supercomputers and the U.S. fell into third place for the first time ever, IBM has decisively regained the sought-after number one supercomputer title for America.The ...

This IDC update provides a near-verbatim record of update presentations on HPC sites and programs given at the 45th HPC User Forum held April 16–18, 2012, at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Virginia. The document also includes notes on ...

This IDC update provides a near-verbatim record of a panel session on the role of government in high-performance computing (HPC) funding. The session was conducted at the 45th HPC User Forum held April 16–18, 2012, at the Jefferson Hotel ...

This IDC update provides a near-verbatim record of the session on better understanding future system performance, held at the 45th HPC User Forum, April 16–18, 2012, at the Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.

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This IDC update shows IDC's tracking of the broader HPC market beyond the compute server and provides five-year forecasts for each category. The base HPC compute server market is projected to grow at a 7.3% CAGR from 2011 to 2016, from $ ...

This IDC Buyer Case Study is the third in a series looking at the progress at RIKEN and explores the current status of the RIKEN Advanced Institute of Computational Science (AICS), which hosts the largest and the fastest supercomputer in ...

This IDC study presents IDC's annual list of the top 10 HPC market predictions for 2012.: "In 2011, the HPC market recovery from the worldwide economic recession that began in 2008 continued, enabling HPC server revenue essentially ...

In this IDC Web conference, Steve Conway, research vice president for High Performance Computing (HPC), will present IDC's predictions for the 10 most important developments in the HPC market during 2012, including the continuing economi ...

This Market Analysis Perspective presentation evalutates the worldwide market for high performance computing (HPC), also known as technical computing, in 2011. The presentation covers key trends and technologies, the competitive landscap ...