Monday, May 19, 2008

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

High-Performance Computing (HPC) is a branch of computer science that focuses on developing supercomputers, parallel processing algorithms, and related software. HPC is important because of its lower cost and because it is implemented in sectors where distributed parallel computing is needed to:

 Solve large scientific problems
– Advanced product design
– Environmental studies (weather prediction and geological studies)
– Research
 Store and process large amounts of data
– Data mining
– Genomics research
– Internet engine search
– Image processing

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