Looking at the different application areas in Fig. 8 and Fig. 9 we see an increasing share for 1995 with finally 25% of installed systems and 12.5% of the installed performance after the decreasing share of industrial installations during the last years. If you look at the TOP500 in more detail you see that with 32% only IBM and SGI have an overproportional share of industrial installations. This is a very strong indication which advantage binary compatibel nodes might have on the HPC market. The only two other companies with a share of 25% of industrial installations are Cray Research and Convex, both with a big customer base from the time of ECL-vector computers.
Figure 8: The distribution of systems on the
different
application areas over time.
Figure 9: The distribution of performance on the
different application areas over time.