HPCwire is happy to announce a new series with Hyperion Research  – a fact-based market research firm focusing on the HPC market. In addition to providing market insights and research, Hyperion also sponsors the HPC User Forum, a twice-a-year US and two international meetings where important topics are discussed. A volunteer steering committee of major user organizations in government, industry, and academia sets meeting agendas. This year, the Spring meeting is in Reston, Virginia.

Throughout the year, Hyperion will supply expanded data on each of the prediction summaries below. As the predictions are published on HPCwire, we will link them to the list below. Keep checking back for updates or watch article announcements in our weekly newsletter.

1. Utilization of HPC resources in the cloud will experience accelerating growth as users augment their AI focus on training with inferencing.
2. While “speeds and feeds” will continue to be important to buyers of storage systems, the primary value point and competitive advantage for data storage solutions will shift to the “Data Platform.”
3. System vendors will struggle to a greater degree than hyperscalers in absorbing the accelerated cadence of NVIDIA’s GPU roadmap.
4. Interest in procuring on-premises quantum computing (QC) systems will grow, augmenting but not replacing access to QC through the cloud.
5. Installations of HPCs built by large end users, not traditional HPC suppliers, will become more commonplace, particularly for those targeting high-end AI computational workloads.
6. RISC-V will continue to gain ground as a viable processor option.
7. The cost of energy will more frequently outweigh HPC performance increases, as some sites will settle for “good enough” speeds in order to reach energy efficiency goals.
8. The importance of monolithic HPC benchmarking will diminish.
9. LLM frameworks will gain prominence within the overall trend of LLM usage.
10. Generative AI growth will continue, but adoption growth rates will stabilize as applicability and limitations become more well understood.
11. Arm-based processors will rise sharply in adoption, with expected revenues for Arm-based HPC systems doubling compared with the previous year.