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What does the year ahead hold for the HPC market? Industry experts share their predictions
David Chapa, former ESG analyst and current Quantum chief technology evangelist
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ith the awareness surrounding Big Data and the impact it has across all tiers of IT, I expect to see
HPC reaching into non-traditional business markets this year. Since I expect scale-out storage to take more of a mainstream hold, as predicted by Terri McClure with ESG, I believe this will push the adoption (whether known or unknown by the adoptees) of more of an HPC architecture that is optimised and made more efficient for these markets. But, what is driving these non-traditional
businesses to seek out HPC? I believe it is business markets and Big Data. Big Data workloads will really get into high gear when the biotech and life sciences sectors accelerate their creation of data for clinical research. Genomic sequencers are becoming
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increasingly affordable, which means data can be created in a much shorter time. Tis will help labs, both small and large, achieve greater relevance in this field. However, this also means massive amounts of data will need to be managed across multiple tiers of storage. We are an industry that devours bytes
so rapidly it can make one’s head spin. Te data growth that IDC predicts by 2014 is staggering: 61 per cent CAGR for file based – i.e. unstructured data – and 22 per cent CAGR for block. While the tragedy in Tailand may have a short-term effect on the cost of storage, the long-term prediction is that costs will continue to drop. One of the segments I see exploding in the
next few years is life sciences. With the cost of genomic sequencers dropping drastically in
price, researchers can now more affordably sequence human genomes. When it is more affordable, researchers will invariably increase the number of sequences they can run. Richard Resnick, CEO of GenomeQuest
in Boston, said in a TedxBoston talk in July 2011 that the ‘worldwide capacity to sequence human genomes is something like 50,000- 100,000 human genomes this year… this is expected to double, triple or maybe quadruple year over year for the foreseeable future.’ Tis makes storage a very interesting growth area moving forward.
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