High-Performance Computing - 25 Resources

Overview

The term high performance computing (HPC) refers to the use of (parallel) supercomputers and computer clusters, that is, computing systems comprised of multiple (usually mass-produced) processors linked together in a single system with commercially available interconnects. This is in contrast to mainframe computers, which are generally monolithic in nature. While a high level of technical skill is needed to assemble and use such systems, they can be created from off-the-shelf components. Because of their flexibility, power, and relatively low cost, HPC systems increasingly dominate the world of supercomputing. Usually, computer systems in or above the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers. The term is most commonly associated with computing used for scientific research. A related term, High-performance technical computing (HPTC), generally refers to the engineering applications of cluster-based computing (such as computational fluid dynamics and the building and testing of virtual prototypes). Recently, HPC has come to be applied to business uses of cluster-based supercomputers, such as data warehouses, line-of-business (LOB) applications and transaction processing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance_computing

Publications (6)

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Keywords

Item ID	Title	Resource Category	Pub Date	Views	Ranking
ERB0805	Developing and Extending a Cyberinfrastructure Model		03/04/2008	2,614
ERB0809	Advanced Networking Services: Current Issues in Higher Education		04/29/2008	3,145
ERB0810	Recasting the Centralization-Decentralization Debate: Advancing the Innovation Support Cycle		05/13/2008	5,237
ERS0605	IT Engagement in Research: A Baseline Study		08/28/2006	3,753
EPO0926	Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Framework		10/30/2008	81
ERM0965	What Technology? Reflections on Evolving Services		10/30/2009	733

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Item ID	Title	Pub Date	Views	Ranking
E08_177991	(Re)Inventing Circuit Networking in the Optical Era	10/29/2008	41

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