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high-performance computingHigh-speed computing. Originally pertaining only to supercomputers for scientific research, high-performance computing (HPC) migrated to the business world with racks of high-speed servers in the datacenter. Also associated with high-performance computing are "clustering" and "high availability." Clusters refer to multiple computers tied together for greater speed and capacity, and high availability provides a certain degree of fault tolerance. The HPC term is also used by gamers as a label for the latest high-speed CPU or display adapter. See supercomputer, clustering, high availability and gaming. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Fibre Channel technology at 4Gbps is very important to high-performance computing users and Engenio will be an early provider," said Steve Gardner, Engenio Director of Product Marketing. From humble beginnings as part of a NASA project in the early 1990s, Beowulf clusters have now secured their place as the predominant high-performance computing architecture. ROUND ROCK, Texas -- The Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC), an Air Force research laboratory center managed by the University of Hawaii, has announced that it will install a 5,120-processor high-performance computing cluster using Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) servers. |
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