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Encyclopedia > High performance computing

The field of high performance computing (HPC) comprises computing applications on (parallel) supercomputers and computer clusters. Most ideas for the new wave of grid computing were originally borrowed from HPC.


Usually, computer systems in or above the teraflop-region are counted as HPC-computers.



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High Performance Computing at The University of Manchester (335 words)
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The HPC team is responsible for supporting Supercomputing, both for academics nationally and within the University of Manchester.
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