Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What are the latest pricing trends by model?
2. Which vendors are gaining or losing share?
3. Which competitive segments are growing or contracting?
4. What are the trends within the 10 price bands?
5. What are the trends for technical clusters?
6. What are the best-selling models?
7. What are the operating system trends in the high-performance computing (HPC) market?
8. What are the processor trends in the HPC market?
9. What are the sales volumes in the five geographies?

Sales are tracked on a worldwide basis by five geographies: North America, EMEA, Japan, Asia/Pacific, and the rest of the world (ROW).

In this quarterly deliverable, IDC presents the HPC market from various perspectives, including by competitive segment, vendor, cluster versus noncluster, geography, and operating system. It also contains detailed revenue and shipment information by HPC model. In addition to published deliverables, the actual QView database contains rich data content that can be leveraged to help IDC clients obtain specific information to meet their most pressing needs.

Timely delivery:

• Quarterly data files are delivered nine weeks after the end of each calendar quarter in an updated Excel workbook.

Annual subscription:

• IDC's Worldwide High-Performance Technical Server QView monitors the top vendors by model. The vendors tracked are subject to change based on market conditions.