A Near-Sweep For AWS in High Performance Computing Survey High-performance computing users ranked Amazon Web Services as the No. The number one cloud computing platform in all categories. Intersect360 Research, a Hyperscale analyst firm, recently conducted a survey among HPC users. It found that cloud computing is ranked number three with Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure dominating the ratings. AWS was however the most dominant. AWS was named the top vendor by end users in:

• Product awareness
• Current usage
• Technical impression
• Operational impression
• Overall
• Future outlook for HPC
• Probability to use within two years
• Based on ratings, vendor product loyalty
• Based on ratings, projected adoption by non-current clients

AWS is the only platform that leads this category, and it is “projected marketshare gain, based upon ratings.” End users rated Microsoft Azure the best platform in this category. Intersect360 CEO Addison Snell stated in a prepared statement that “AWS almost sweeps the categories at top of user ratings.” “Google Cloud is second to AWS in loyalty, while Microsoft Azure is showing the best growth potential. Alibaba Cloud scores well in a local group, but is not widely known or used outside of that group. Other than cloud, there were other sections for each category, including servers, storage, processors, and servers. These were all highly rated offerings, including NVIDIA GPUs and Dell EMC. However, cloud is not as dominant as the others. Intersect360 stated that while Intel Xeon CPUs remain dominant in the HPC processor market but that AMD EPYC is highly thought of and gaining market share and mindshare, the study results also show that AMD EPYC chips are highly valued and are gaining market share and mindshare. “NVIDIA GPUs are the top-rated in technical evaluation. According to user ratings, AMD with EPYC CPUs and Radeon GPUs is the combination that is most likely to win. Intersect360 has the complete for-pay report.