The high-performance computing (HPC) market is unlike any other. Although it is a small, niche market, its influence is powerful and pervasive. In fact, one could argue that it is intrinsically linked to the health of our society from an economic, defense, and public well-being standpoint.

One of the extraordinary aspects of the Bio-IT market is the notion of "scale": the scale of scientific discovery, and the possibilities derived from discovery; the scale of growth, which requires looking at multiple dimensions such as the number of biotech companies, VC investments, IT infrastructure build-out, etcetera; and the scale of complexity, by which I mean the elaborate organisational ecosystems emerging in this market.