The A Register -
Sales of supercomputers last year were a bit better than the
prognosticators at IDC expected, with sales up across all types of
systems by 8.4 per cent to $10.3bn. IDC's earlier projections had called
for sales to jump by 7.2 per cent from the $9.5bn level set in 2010.
According to IDC's definition, any high-performance computing system
that has a price tag of $500,000 or more is a "supercomputer" if it is
designed primarily for technical workloads like simulation and modeling.
Sales of these machines rose as 2011 rolled through its four quarters,
with particularly strong sales in Q4 as Cray and IBM closed some big
deals. ... 続きを読む
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/20/idc_hpc_servers_2011/
2012/03/21
Supercomputers sold like hotcakes in 2011
