High Performance Computing at its Best
By ADMINISTRATOR on April 01, 2008 (5:45:45 AM) America/Los_Angeles
Computers have undoubtedly changed the world, is because of them that communications are extremely fast, science has advanced so much and we are able to do things we never though even to be possible before. Learn more about high performance computing.
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Getting the Right Computer Software
By ADMINISTRATOR on March 05, 2008 (1:47:14 PM) America/Los_Angeles
Computer software is a vast term used to describe a collection of computer programmes, procedures and documentation that all perform tasks on a computer system. Computer software is the applications that we use on our computers such as office programmes and even windows itself. Computer software is any programme that we load onto and install on our computers.
Computer software is usually brought in CD format and is then installed onto our computers from this. Any new programmes etc that you buy for your computer can be classed as a form of software. Without software you wouldn’t get very far with the use of your computer.
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High-performance computing
By ADMINISTRATOR on January 02, 2008 (9:24:45 AM) America/Los_Angeles
High-performance computing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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