IDC published the HPC market update in total and in four different segments according to technical capability:

• systems configured and purchased to solve the largest most demanding problems technical enterprise
• systems purchased to support technical applications in throughput environments selling for 1 million Dollar or more technical divisional
• systems purchased for throughput environments selling from $250.000 to $999.999 technical department
• systems purchased for throughput environments selling for less than $250.000

The major market trends: 2003 reversed the decline with double digit growth, 12%. About $ 5.3 billion in technical servers were sold in 2003, $5.6 billion including tier 2 vendors.

<table>

<tr>

<td>segment</td>

<td>2002</td>

<td>2003</td>

<td>change</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>capability</td>

<td>1,002,652</td>

<td>753,515</td>

<td>-24.8%</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>enterprise</td>

<td>785,009</td>

<td>866,861</td>

<td>10.4%</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>divisional</td>

<td>1,061,530</td>

<td>1,141,331</td>

<td>7.5%</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>departmental</td>

<td>1,850,146</td>

<td>2,501,154</td>

<td>35,2%</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td>total</td>

<td>4,699,337</td>

<td>5,262,861</td>

<td>12.0%</td>

</tr>

</table>

The $303 Mio. of the tier 2 vendors add to the capability market, $ 18 Mio., that makes a change of -23.1%, the divisional segment, $74 Mio, a change of 14.5%, and the departmental segment, $211 Mio, a change of 46.6%. This underpins that nearly 50% of the market growth is dedicated to the departmental technical server.