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Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D.
Program Vice President, High-Performance Computing

Team: Directions 2012 (U.S) Participating Analysts
IDC Predictions Team
Workstations and High-Performance Computing
Earl Joseph, Program Vice President of IDC's High-Performance Systems, drives research and consulting efforts associated with the United States, Europe and Asia-Pacific markets for technical servers and supercomputers. This research includes market sizing, market share, segmentation, tracking, trending, and vendor analysis for the multi-user technical server technology. Dr. Joseph advises IDC clients on the competitive, managerial, technological, integration and implementation issues for technical servers. Dr. Joseph is also heading up IDC's high-end HPC user forum activities.

Dr. Joseph's areas of expertise include technical computers from entry-level servers to high-end capability supercomputers, software, storage and networking solutions for technical computing. He has worked for four technical computing companies in multiple marketing and R&D roles. Dr. Joseph has a strong background in computer technologies and future directions in technical computing. Prior to joining IDC, Dr. Joseph spent his 17 year career in IT in the HPC market space, most recently at SGI and Cray Research. Dr. Joseph has recently worked closely with the leading HPC users around the world on their current and future market requirements.

Dr. Joseph holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota where his research focus was the strategic management of high technology firms, and an undergraduate degree in business and technology from the University of Minnesota.

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Xyratex Acquires Lustre Assets from Oracle
Steve Conway, Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D.
Feb 2013 - Doc # lcUS23956213      IDC Link
On a recent trip to China, IDC's HPC team asked the head of a large Chinese HPC center how he dealt with so many users who were brand new to HPC. He answered, "New to HPC is fairly easy. New to Lustre is hard." IDC's worldwide end-user rese ...
Intel Xeon Phi Shows Surprising Early Momentum
Steve Conway, Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D.
Dec 2012 - Doc # lcUS23837412      IDC Link
Although Intel began disclosing some details of its Xeon Phi coprocessor in mid-2012, the major launch happened at the SC12 worldwide supercomputing conference, November 10–16, in Salt Lake City. IDC was surprised at the strength of this la ...

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Worldwide Technical Computing Server 2013–2017 Forecast
Chirag Dekate, Ph.D., Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Steve Conway
May 2013 - Doc # 241154      Market Analysis
This study presents an overview of IDC's forecast for the technical server market for the 2013–2017 period. 2010, 2011, and 2012 were strong recovery years for the HPC technical computing market, with 10.3%, 8.4%, and 7.7% year-over-year ...
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Supercomputers Exceed 50% of the HPC Server Market in 2012
Chirag Dekate, Ph.D., Earl C. Joseph, Ph.D., Steve Conway
Apr 2013 - Doc # 240426      Market Analysis
This IDC study centers on highlighting key trends observed over a period of three years from IDC's worldwide HPC server tracker that is updated quarterly. IDC has observed a major shift in revenue toward the higher end of the HPC ecosyst ...
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Appearances

IDC at ISC 2013
Leipzig, Germany
June 18, 2013

IDC Predictions 2013: High Performance Computing
Framingham, MA United States
February 26, 2013

IDC at SC12
Salt Lake City, UT United States
November 13, 2012

IDC at ISC2012
Hamburg, Germany
June 18, 2012