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High-Performance Computing Fundamentals

High-Performance Computing (HPC) impacts every aspect of your life, from your morning coffee to driving a car to get to the office, knowing the weather forecast, your vaccinations, movies that you watch, flights that you take, games that you play, and many other aspects. Many of our actions leave a digital footprint, leading to the generation of massive amounts of data. In order to process such data, we need a large amount of processing power. HPC, also known as accelerated computing, aggregates the computing power from a cluster of nodes and divides the work among various interconnected processors, to achieve much higher performance than could be achieved by using a single computer or machine, as shown ...

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