High Performance Technical Computing
No matter their differences in performance of Itanium adoption, Early Adopters and Early Majority users can be grouped together in the type of computing that is being performed. This is High Performance Technical Computing, (HPTC for short), and it's best described as any form of computing where you are using the mathematical, analytical power of the processor.
The focus is on mathematical precision such as the multiplication of very large or small numbers with long numbers of decimal places and trying to get the solution in a speedy manner. Another way to describe it is in term of complexity: Illustrating a Windows background is not HPTC, but Pixar-style digital content creation is. Using Microsoft®[15]
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