Chirag Dekate, Research Manager of IDC's High-Performance Systems, conducts 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. Dekate also supports IDC's HPC User Forum activities.

Dr. Dekate's areas of expertise include high-performance computing systems, from current generation Petascale HPC systems to emerging Exascale high-end capability supercomputers, software, storage and networking solutions for technical computing. He has worked for years in the field of high-performance computing, and has a strong understanding of the future directions of HPC systems and applications. Prior to joining IDC, Dr. Dekate was involved in various Exascale activities and initiatives in the ParalleX group at Louisiana State University (LSU). Dr. Dekate also co-developed several HPC courses at LSU.

Dr. Dekate holds a Ph.D. from the Louisiana State University where his research focus was exposing new degrees of parallelism in dynamic graph problems using next-generation execution models targeted towards Exascale systems.