Linux and Open Source Are Driving HPC into New High- Growth Markets

The Linux operating system dominates high performance computing (HPC) and has played an important role in making HPC one of the fastest-growing IT markets. The fastest component of the market’s projected growth is high performance data analysis (HPDA), where burgeoning new markets for HPC and Linux include machine learning and deep learning, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence—and new use cases range from self-driving vehicles to smart cities, precision medicine, and the Internet of Things (IoT). In addition, Linux pioneered the open source software movement that is now rapidly advancing into all parts of the HPC software ecosystem. This paper reviews the new growth opportunities for HPC, using Linux and open source software pioneer SUSE to illustrate how a vendor is positioning itself to benefit from this forecast growth.