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High Performance Computing

ALSO CALLED: HPC, High-Performance Clusters, High-Performance Computing, and High Performance Clusters
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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  … 
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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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