The HPC sector is on the cusp of yet another change in the way it does business, except this time the pendulum is swinging away from HPC vendors having the upper hand in choosing the products they deliver towards HPC users who define their workloads and then assemble the vendor-agnostic hardware and software they need to get the job done. As a result, in the near future and more so as time progresses, considerations of brand loyalty, vendor lock in, legacy hardware, and proprietary software will become less important, perhaps even fading away. Instead, users will increasingly look to a collection of vendors to supply the targeted solutions they need–without having to worry too much about the specific hardware and software used to deliver those solutions.
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