Today, we look at how high performance computing resources are increasingly crucial for extending capabilities from search to discovery. Remember the old Shake’n’Bake commercials where the parents exclaim over the breaded chicken at dinner, and the child chimes in to say that she helped? According to Steve Conway, Research Vice President, HPC, at IDC — in 2012, record-setting HPC server revenue was the “tasty chicken”, and the little helper was “Big Data”.