IDC RESEARCH

HPC Storage and Data Management: User/Vendor Perspectives and Survey Results Steve Conway, Jie Wu, Charlie Hayes, Lloyd Cohen, Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D. Jun 2007 - Doc # 206967      Survey This IDC study presents detailed summaries of presentations on storage and data management by a variety of high-performance computing (HPC) users and vendors, along with highlights from an IDC survey on HPC user requirements fo ... purchase document | save to bookcase

HPC In India — Grids As Access Points for Leveraged R&D: An Eagle Takes Flight in India Jean S. Bozman, Jie Wu, Steve Conway, Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D. Jun 2007 - Doc # 206698      Event Flash This IDC Flash discusses the grid topology as a mechanism to support scientific research (for both computation and data analysis/management) within India. The initiative to build the Garuda Grid, starting this year and driving ... purchase document | save to bookcase

HP FYQ2 2007; Strong Growth and Share Gain Crawford Del Prete May 2007 - Doc # lcUS20690407      IDC Link Today HP announced year-over-year revenue growth of 13% (10% in constant currency) in a tough but steady market. HP ann ... | save to bookcase

With Tangasol, Oracle Tackles Complexity Surrounding the Next Generation Data Center Vernon Turner Apr 2007 - Doc # lcUS20661207      IDC Link On April 18th , 2007, Oracle completed its acquisition of Tangosol Inc, an emerging "in-memory data grid software ... | save to bookcase

Worldwide Workstation 4Q06 Vendor Shares Lloyd Cohen, Simeon Hinov, Masamichi Karasawa Apr 2007 - Doc # 206157      Competitive Analysis This IDC study accompanies the U.S. and Worldwide Workstation Tracker and the Workstation Regional Tracker. It provides an overview of market performance, analyzes key changes, and reports general trends for the fourth quarter ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Worldwide High-Performance and Technical Computing Server 2007–2011 Forecast Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Jie Wu Apr 2007 - Doc # 206170      Market Analysis The technical server market grew by more than 102% from 2002 to 2006, and 9% from 2005 to 2006. In 2006, the market grew $822 million to reach just over $10 billion. IDC expects the total HPC market to expand by 9.1% annually i ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Introducing Altus 600 — A New Addition to the Penguin Family: Setting a New Price Level for HPC Clusters? Jie Wu, Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Steve Conway Feb 2007 - Doc # 205746      Insight This IDC Insight takes a closer look at the key features, benefits, and risks associated with Penguin Computing's Altus 600 offering. Price/performance has become the top purchase criterion for HPC clusters. Accordingly, this I ... purchase document | save to bookcase

HP Has Strong Fiscal 1Q07, Sees Growth Across Business Units and Geographies Crawford Del Prete, Jean S. Bozman Feb 2007 - Doc # 205744      Event Flash This IDC Flash describes HP's report of its quarterly financial results for its fiscal 1Q07, ended January 31, 2007. Although IDC reports quarterly data on a calendar basis, the progress shown across HP's lines of business are ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Worldwide Workstation 2006 Preliminary Results Lloyd Cohen Feb 2007 - Doc # 205690      Update This IDC update provides preliminary market share data for CY06 based on three quarters of recorded data for the worldwide workstation market and IDC estimates for the fourth quarter. IDC will publish finalized data for CY06 in ... purchase document | save to bookcase

New Directions in HPC at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Jie Wu, Steve Conway Feb 2007 - Doc # 205672      Buyer Case Study This IDC Buyer Case Study is part of an IDC series on government organizations planning to acquire high-performance computing systems with peak performance of at least one petaflop — one quadrillion (10^15) floating point opera ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Will 2006 Shine Again for HPC? Jie Wu, Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D. Feb 2007 - Doc # 205378      Insight This IDC Insight provides an early look at the market results for 2006 in the high-performance technical computing market. IDC predicts the market will show 9.4% growth for 2006, the fourth consecutive year of strong growth for this ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Sun's Recent Earnings Offer Hope With Several Caveats Vernon Turner Jan 2007 - Doc # lcUS20143206      IDC Link Earnings for Sun Microsystems 3rd quarter fiscal year 2006 offersome hope that the company may be on the mend if it can kee ... | save to bookcase

New Year Resolutions for SGI Addison Snell Jan 2007 - Doc # lcUS20522607      IDC Link It's a new year for SGI, a chance to make things right, to really turn things around this time. Out of bankruptcy and living in a new home, the company is facing 2007 with a goal of recapturing enough of its old self to once again oc ... | save to bookcase

Worldwide Server 2007 Top 10 Predictions Jean S. Bozman, Matthew Eastwood, Earl Joseph Ph.D., Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D. Jan 2007 - Doc # 205242      Top 10 Predictions This IDC study looks at the top 10 predictions for the worldwide server market, comprising both commercial computing and technical computing. These predictions are published annually, and the list presented in this study repres ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Worldwide Technical Computing 2007 Top 10 Predictions Earl Joseph Ph.D., Matthew Eastwood, Jean S. Bozman, Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Addison Snell Jan 2007 - Doc # 205240      Top 10 Predictions This IDC study presents the top 10 predictions for the Technical Computing group. It includes an analysis of the reasons why each of the predictions was made, along with a brief discussion of the market dynamics leading to the ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Worldwide Workstation 3Q06 Vendor Shares Lloyd Cohen, Simeon Hinov, Masamichi Karasawa Jan 2007 - Doc # 205020      Competitive Analysis This IDC study accompanies the U.S. and Worldwide Workstation Tracker and the Workstation Regional Tracker. It provides an overview of market performance, analyzes key changes, and reports general trends for the third quarter o ... purchase document | save to bookcase

IDC Analyst Briefing at the SC06 Conference Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Jie Wu, Lloyd Cohen, Steve Conway, Conway Communications Jan 2007 - Doc # 205031      Update This IDC update discusses IDC's annual "Breakfast at Supercomputing" analyst briefing, which was held November 15, 2006, in conjunction with the SC06 conference in Tampa, Florida. The principal tasks of the meeting were to discuss ma ... purchase document | save to bookcase

What Will Be the Next Phase Change in HPC, and Will It Require New Ways of Looking at HPC Systems? Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Jie Wu, Vernon Turner Jan 2007 - Doc # 205025      Technology Assessment This IDC study takes a look at the technology trends affecting the high-performance computing (HPC) technical server market over the next five years. The HPC market has seen a revolution over the last five years due to cluster techno ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Is The Energy Star Study For Servers Coming To Your Datacenter Soon? Vernon Turner Dec 2006 - Doc # lcUS20484606      IDC Link It’s coming! An Energy Star program for the server industry took a major step forward on December 7th , 2006 when the U.S Congress passe ... | save to bookcase

DARPA Selects IBM for Phase III of HPCS Program Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Vernon Turner, Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Jie Wu Dec 2006 - Doc # 204606      Insight This IDC Insight provides a summary of IBM's win of the DARPA Phase III HPCS program award that provides IBM with $244 million in R&D to develop new types of supercomputer architectures.: purchase document | save to bookcase

Worldwide High-Performance Technical Computing System 2005 Vendor Shares: 2005 Market Census Results Jie Wu, Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D. Dec 2006 - Doc # 204866      Competitive Analysis This IDC study presents IDC's data for and analysis of the 2005 market for technical high-performance computing systems, plus historic data from 2001. The census data includes revenue and shipments segmented by competitive segm ... purchase document | save to bookcase

DARPA Selects Cray for Phase III of HPCS Program Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Vernon Turner, Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Jie Wu Dec 2006 - Doc # 204582      Insight This IDC Insight provides a summary of Cray's win of the DARPA Phase III HPCS program award that provides Cray with $250 million in R&D funding to develop new types of supercomputer architectures. : purchase document | save to bookcase

Utility Grids in Technical Computing Markets: Taxonomy, Opportunities, Drivers, and Inhibitors Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D. Nov 2006 - Doc # 204283      Industry Development and Models This IDC study presents IDC's analysis of utility grid product components and our analysis of the drivers, inhibitors, and business models and opportunities within the market. Grid-based utility computing products (or utility grids) ... purchase document | save to bookcase

IBM Covers the Bases in Capability Computing Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D. Nov 2006 - Doc # lcUS20455306      IDC Link The Following Link Was Prepared By Addison Snell, and Dr. Christopher Willard: | save to bookcase

HPC Market and Research Overview: 2006 and Beyond Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Jie Wu Nov 2006 - Doc # TB20061130      Event Proceeding In this information-packed session, IDC will give a first look at how the HPC market has progressed in 2006. Specific analysis will cover many of the industry's top issues, including cluster penetration, operating system migration, a ...

DARPA to Fund Cray and IBM to Research the Next Generation of Super Computers Vernon Turner Nov 2006 - Doc # lcUS20446406      IDC Link The following Link was prepared by Dr. Earl Joseph, Dr. Chris Willard, and Vernon Turner.: | save to bookcase

The Power of the Portfolio: HP Closes FY2006 with Strong Revenue Growth and Balanced Profit Contribution Crawford Del Prete Nov 2006 - Doc # lcUS20439606      IDC Link HP closed its FYQ4 and FY2006 with strong revenue growth, reporting 7% and 6% growth, respectively (6% and 7%, ... | save to bookcase

Liquid Computing Announces a New Approach to Scalable Computing: Merging HPC and Telecom Architectures Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Jie Wu Nov 2006 - Doc # 204386      Insight This IDC Insight analyzes LiquidIQ, the debut system recently launched by Liquid Computing Corp., a new entrant into the HPC systems market. LiquidIQ combines HPC and telecommunications design approaches with an interconnect-driven m ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Worldwide Technical Utility Grid: Initial Market Sizing and 2006–2010 Forecast Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Jie Wu Nov 2006 - Doc # 204310      Market Analysis This IDC study provides our initial market sizing market forecast for utility grid spending within the technical computer systems market. Utility computing is a usage model in which users pay for computational resources through an es ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Looking Back and Forward — What Has Changed in the Technical Computing Market? Jie Wu, Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D. Nov 2006 - Doc # 204099      Update This IDC update presents an overview of the market dynamics and growth rates of the technical computing market from various angles. We examine the market from both competitive and industry segment perspectives, looking at market cond ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Worldwide Technical Server 2006–2010 Forecast by Geographic Region Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Jie Wu, Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D. Nov 2006 - Doc # 204219      Market Analysis This IDC study shows the five-year high-performance computing (HPC) market forecasts divided among five primary geographical regions. The regions are also broken out by the five IDC competitive segments. : According to Earl ... purchase document | save to bookcase

EPFL Targets First Functional Model of the Human Brain Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Jie Wu, Steve Conway, Conway Communications Nov 2006 - Doc # 204194      Buyer Case Study This IDC Buyer Case Study discusses the Blue Brain Project, which was launched in 2005 by Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in close scientific-technical collaboration with IBM and aims to develop, by 2015 ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Five Years After the HP-Compaq Merger: How Has HP Fared? Crawford Del Prete, Jean S. Bozman Oct 2006 - Doc # 204068      Insight This IDC Insight revisits the 2002 merger between HP and Compaq, reflecting on the progress the company has made as well as the future opportunities and challenges of the combined entity. The Related Research section lists a nu ... purchase document | save to bookcase

Mellanox and QLogic's Market Moves Help Join the Interconnect Dots Vernon Turner Oct 2006 - Doc # lcUS20390606      IDC Link The InfiniBand interconnect industry recently reached a milestone. ... | save to bookcase

The DoD HPCMP: A Mission-Driven, User-Centric Resource Network Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Addison Snell, Christopher G. Willard, Ph.D., Jie Wu, Steve Conway Oct 2006 - Doc # 203700      Buyer Case Study This IDC Buyer Case Study discusses the DoD HPCMP, which began operating in 1992 with congressional funding and a mandate to acquire capability-class HPC systems for the military services through a pooling of financial resources. Tod ... purchase document | save to bookcase