Since 2002, the dramatic growth of the global market for high-performance computing (HPC) servers has been driven almost exclusively by Linux clusters, which in 2006 accounted for more than half of this $10 billion market. IDC expects Linux clusters to reach 70% to 80% of this growing market in coming years. The HPC industry is in the midst of important technology trends that requires important considerations for product design. These trends reflect the user community's desire for better reliability, availability, flexibility, compatibility, power efficiency, as well as price per performance and TCO.

Analyst Firm IDC examines the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer based on Intel Xeon Processors and Appro's Management System in relation to the needs of HPC and Commercial markets. In addtion, IDC provides good information about technology trends that are experiencing growth in adoption such as blade servers, Intel MulticoreTechnologies, InfiniBand interconnect fabric and Linux.


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