Supercomputer Market

Supercomputer Market Insights

The global supercomputer market is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 9.1% over the forecast period mainly due to increasing demand for supercomputers from commercial customers. The growing demand for technologies such as multi-core accelerators, 3D memory, flash storage, integrated networking, and optical interconnects are anticipated to boost the market growth over the coming years.

Supercomputers find its application in industries such as automotive, drug companies, aerospace, and oil companies among others. These computers are widely used by commercial customers to run engineering and latest analytical models on commodity clusters. The ability of these devices to deliver better results in smaller time periods, eventually aids the businesses to generate a better ROI.

Supercomputer Market: Operating System Insights

The global supercomputer market is segmented into Linux and Unix, based on operating system. Linux is anticipated to account for a significant market share over the forecast period. Factors such as extreme scalability, consistency, and flexibility are projected to propel the growth of this segment over the next few years.

Supercomputer Market: Processor Type / Service Type Insights

Based on processor type, the global supercomputer market is classified into Intel, AMD, and IBM among others. IBM processors are likely to account for a substantial market share over the coming years as it deliberately uses low power processors to deal with heat density. Intel processors are also projected to experience substantial growth rate over the next few years followed by AMD.

The global supercomputer market is divided into Quasi-opportunistic Supercomputing and Opportunistic Supercomputing, based on service type. Quasi-opportunistic service segment is likely to account for a significant market share over the coming years as it aims to provide a higher quality service than opportunistic grid computing.

Supercomputer Market: Application Insights

The global supercomputer market is segmented into Commercial, Space & Research Centres, Hospitals & Laboratories, and Government Entities among others, based on applications.

The government entities accounted for a dominant share of the overall supercomputer market in 2016. The demand for these computers is anticipated to be driven by increased public awareness towards the growing importance of economic competitiveness and security.

Factors such as increased R&D activities in various fields across the government, industrial, and academic sectors coupled with development of advanced defense systems and electronic warfare tools are likely to boost the market growth over the forecast period.

Space & Research centres segment is also predicted to grow at a significant CAGR over the coming years followed by Hospitals and commercial sectors.

Supercomputer Market: Regional Insights

The market in Asia Pacific recorded dominant market share in 2016 and is further anticipated to grow at a lucrative CAGR over the forecast period. The regional growth is primarily attributed to increased investments from countries such as China and Japan for the development of supercomputers.  Moreover, the growing number of data centres coupled with enhanced infrastructure is projected to foster the regional growth over the coming years.

Supercomputer Market: End-Use Landscape

The end-use landscape includes a list of current and prospective consumers prevailing across the regions. This section provides company addresses, contact details, products, and regional presence of companies who are purchasing or are likely to purchase products from the global supercomputer market. The major consumers of the product are Mayo Clinic and UCLA Medical Center amongst others.

Supercomputer Market: Competitor Analysis

Some of the leading players operating in the global supermarket include Bull Atos, Cray, Dell, FUJITSU, IBM, Lenovo, NEC, and Silicon Graphics International amongst others.

Please note: This is not an exhaustive list of companies profiled in the report.

In August 2017, SpaceX announced to launch a supercomputer to space, which would assist astronauts on future deep-space missions.

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