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ALSO CALLED: HPC, High-Performance Clusters, High-Performance Computing, and High Performance Clusters DEFINITION: High-performance computing (HPC) is the use of parallel processing for running advanced application programs efficiently, reliably and quickly. The term applies especially to systems that function above a teraflop or 10¹² floating-point operations … Definition continues below.

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Optimizing Java Application Performance with Compute Appliances sponsored by Azul Systems, Inc VIDEOCAST: Posted: 05 May 2008 \| When: 05 May 2008 SUMMARY: Discover how to overcome these persistent challenges for greater Java performance and reliability. TOPICS: Applications Management \| Applications Management Software \| High Performance Computing \| IT Best Practices \| Java \| Server Appliances \| Web Development Tools \| Web Server Software

Business Velocity on a New Scale Resource Center sponsored by BlueArc Corp. WHITE PAPER: Posted: 30 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2008 SUMMARY: Customers in all markets are seeing demand for new levels of storage performance, flexibility, and scalability to cope with today's data intensive environments. This Resource Center highlights technologies that can help you achieve this. TOPICS: Continuous Data Protection \| Data Storage \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| NAS \| NAS Software \| SAN \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Unstructured Data

Fast Enough Isn't Good Enough: Web Site Performance Metrics for the New Millennium sponsored by Gomez WHITE PAPER: Posted: 23 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2008 SUMMARY: The new concerns of internet users mean internet executives must now provide a lot more than providing acceptable page-load times. Discover the 3 primary dimensions of segmentation that influence Web site performance objectives. TOPICS: Downtime \| Fault Tolerance \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Systems Management

The Cost of Poor Performance: Why Customers Need External Performance Monitoring sponsored by Gomez WHITE PAPER: Posted: 23 Apr 2008 \| Published: 15 Apr 2008 SUMMARY: Discover the real costs of poor performance. Find out how much downtime costs monetarily and the areas that it affects most. TOPICS: Downtime \| Fault Tolerance \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) \| Systems Maintenance

The Benefits of Clustered Storage sponsored by Storage Magazine JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: 23 Apr 2008 \| Published: 01 Apr 2008 SUMMARY: Clustered storage combines multiple arrays or controllers to increase their performance, capacity or reliability. In many cases, it's a cost-effective way to meet today's storage needs. TOPICS: Clustering \| Grid Computing \| High Performance Computing \| NAS \| Storage Systems \| Vendor Selection

Java Application Performance Profiling sponsored by Azul Systems, Inc DATA SHEET: Posted: 13 Feb 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2007 SUMMARY: Learn how to alleviate application performance issues by achieving real-time visibility into the performance of both the application and the Java Virtual Machine. TOPICS: Application Deployment \| Application Performance Management \| Application Performance Management Software \| Distributed Computing \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| Java \| Software Quality Assurance \| Transaction Processing Services

Unlocking the Key to High Performance Business Service Oriented Applications sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Posted: 06 Feb 2008 \| Published: 06 Feb 2008 SUMMARY: This paper explains how Software Pipelines can be used to address the performance challenge by applying a sensible and practical approach to parallel processing in typical, if demanding, business applications. TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Clustering \| High Performance Computing \| Microprocessors \| Parallel Processing \| Processor Architectures \| SOA \| Software Development Tools

Simplifying Storage Management in a Growing Environment sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems WHITE PAPER: Posted: 30 Nov 2007 \| Published: 01 Aug 2007 SUMMARY: No business, regardless of size, has been immune to the growth of digital content. This white paper discusses how data storage has changed and the new technologies available to combat this increase in content. TOPICS: Application Performance Management \| Content Archiving \| Continuous Data Protection \| Data Management \| Data Management Software \| Data Recovery \| Disk Backups \| High Availability \| High Performance Computing \| SAN \| SMBs \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| TCO

Next Generation Business Computing sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Posted: 10 Sep 2007 \| Published: 10 Sep 2007 SUMMARY: Learn how Microsoft Windows Vista extends the capabilities of Intel Centrino Pro and Intel vPro processor technology and provides a stable, reliable operating environment where users can work and collaborate more easily and effectively. TOPICS: Collaboration \| Data Management \| High Performance Computing \| IT Managers \| Microprocessors \| Security \| Windows Vista

Transform Your Data Center with Dual-Core Itanium 2 sponsored by Intel Corporation WHITE PAPER: Posted: 31 Aug 2007 \| Published: 01 Jan 2006 SUMMARY: New Dual-Core Itanium 2-based servers provide new levels of performance, reliability, and cost effective scalability for data-intensive computing needs. Read this white and learn how to advance your IT infrastructure. TOPICS: Data Centers \| Data Mining \| Data Security \| ERP \| High Performance Computing \| IT Infrastructure \| Multi-core Processors \| RISC \| Server Appliances \| Server Management

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HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING DEFINITION (continued): … per second. The term HPC is occasionally used as a synonym for supercomputing, although technically a supercomputer is a system that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers. Some supercomputers work at more than a petaflop or 10¹⁵ floating-point operations per second.

The most common users of HPC systems are scientific researchers, engineers and academic institutions. Some government agencies, particularly the military, …
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