High-performance computing
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The field of high performance computing (HPC) comprises computing applications on (parallel) supercomputers and computer clusters. Most ideas for the new wave of grid computing were originally borrowed from HPC.
Usually, computer systems in or above the teraflop-region are counted as HPC-computers. High-performance computing is one of the unsolved problems in computer science.
The most powerful high performance computers can be found on the Top 500 list at (http://www.top500.org). The top500 list is updated twice a year, once in June at the ISC European Supercomputing Conference and again at a US Supercomputing Conference in November.
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See also:
- High-performance technical computing
- Distributed computing
- Quantum computing
- Open problems in high performance computing
- Cluster Resources, Inc.
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