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Glossary
High Performance Computing
- The use of parallel processing for running advanced application programs efficiently, reliably and quickly.
Supercomputer
- A system that performs at or near the currently highest operational rate for computers. Some supercomputers work at over half a petaflop or 1015 floating-point operations per second.
FLOPS
- Number of floating point operations per clock cycle
Peak Performance
- Peak Flops, the theoretical measure of floating point potential
Sustained Performance
- As measured by LinPack (http://www.top500.org)
HPI
- High Performance Interconnect
- This usually means Infiniband
Grid
- Originally born out of high performance computing
- Enhancing the capability of the network of things rather than making applications run faster
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