Introduction
Abstract
High performance computing (HPC) or supercomputing is the class of computing for which performance or alternately time to solution is the primary property. The history of high-end computing spans the early era of enumeration and recording that extends back millennia, almost 500 years of mechanical and automated calculating, and the modern age of digital electronic computing from vacuum tubes to multicore very-large-scale integration chips. Supercomputing has enabled advances in science, engineering, industry, economics, finance, society, health, defense, and security. This chapter introduces students to the entire field of HPC and the place of this textbook.
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