HPC

Abbreviation · Development

Definitions

  1. High-Performance Computing — the use of supercomputers, clusters, and parallel processing to solve computationally intensive problems in science, engineering, and increasingly AI/ML training. Think weather simulations, genome sequencing, and training large language models.

    In plain English: Using extremely powerful computers or clusters of computers working together to solve problems too big for a normal machine, like simulating the weather or training AI models.

    Example: "Our ML training cluster qualifies as HPC — 256 GPUs crunching tensors around the clock."

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