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What are your top developmental opportunities?

If "money is no object" in high performance computing, what are some top revenue-generating opportunities for HPC that make those huge investments make sense?

  • Given new government funding for exascale computing and sizable private investments, are the opportunities mostly in commercial markets, or are the opportunities more closely related to national security and international trade/competition? If commercial markets, what markets?

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    Most money in HPC is only in the small & medium size clusters. Large and breakthrough systems rarely make any money for the manufacturers. The natural follow up question, then why do they do it? They do it because they have an opportunity to develop so many other technologies in networking, hardware and software and employ those in their commercial product line. It is almost like the buyer / client (ex: govt) is paying them to develop those technologies. Its free development dollars for them. Sometimes they will commercialize individual components of the system or the entire system. Ex: BlueGene from IBM. Originally developed under a grant for a national lab, it is now commercially sold. For the Government, it is a matter of national security and developing science in the country. Commercially, Oil & gas companies are the #1 consumers of HPC, closely followed by drug research / biological sciences. Weather forecast was one of the earliest applications of HPC. Genome sequencing leading to personalized medicine is not possible without employing HPC technologies. The commercial applications of HPC is limitless. Even what is called cloud these days has its roots in parallel computing &  HPC.

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I think you should seek revenue in selling HPC systems by "going small".  Look at the engineers running simple simulations on their laptops and desksides, and provide them a software pre-configured cluster to move up.   Don't expect to make any money on the hardware, focus your fees on the software configuration (for which you need to become an expert) and on fees to customize.  Ultimately you are selling expertise in an HPC intensive field, for small engineering shops.  Perhaps advising on configurations of Ansys or Fluent or Abaqus.  A new seller is not going to win any government bids however. Good luck!

Rich Altmaier

Money is an object in almost all HPC situations. The US government exascale investments, for example, are not of unlimited size, in fact they're quite modest compared to total expenditures on research.

Greg Lindahl

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