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High Performance Computing Hits the Cloud

High Performance Computing Hits the Cloud

High Performance Computing (HPC) is defined by Wikipedia as: High-performance computing (HPC) uses supercomputers and computer clusters to solve advanced computation problems. Today, computer systems approaching the teraflops-region are counted as HPC-computers. The term is most commonly associated with computing used for scientific research or computational science. A related term, high-performance technical computing (HPTC), generally…

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