Conclusions



HPC Systems for Supercomputing


Using HPC Systems for Supercomputing


Overall Conclusions...


Terminology

HPC
High Performance Computing.
Parallelism
Concurrency in problem being solved.
Parallelisation
Act of parallelising a problem.
Task
Independent job.
Spawn
Act of generating an independent process.
Process
A spawned program undertaking a task.
Cluster
A set of workstations on the same network.
Application
Computer program generated by a user.
GC
Grand Challenge.
MPP
Massively Parallel Processing.
Supercomputer
The most powerful computers at that time!
"Dusty Deck"
Codes written and evolved over a considerable time.

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Submitted by Mark Johnston
Last updated 6 April 1995