Number of Cores
4096
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High performance computing
High performance computing (HPC) means using (super)computers and computing clusters to solve problems that are numerically or data intensive problems freom various fields of research and technology. Examples include medicine (genetics, „in silico“ drug design, …), physics (meteorological a climatological models, nuclear and particle physics, …), chemistry (properties of atoms and molecules, correlation between structure and reactivity, ….), but also economics (investment risk, stock growth, …) and many other fields.
Supercomputers are systems with a high level of performance compared to common, personal computers. Standardized testing is used to determine the performance level, such as the LINPACK (LINear equations software PACKage) benchmark. Computing performance is measured is Flop (floating point operations per second). Modern supercomputers performance in the range of terraFlops (10^12) and petaFlops (10^15). Agregate computing power is influenced by other parameters such as latency and throughput of the data networks used for communication between the processors and the nodes of the supercomputer, delay and throughput of the communication with data storage and others. All of these parameters determine the scalability of the so called parallel computations that use multiple nodes, processors or cores at the same time.
Parallel computing is the dominant phenomenon in modern HPC. Multi-node, multi-processor and multi-core architectures are used by the vast majority or computing resources, with individual computing units communicating together and offering aggregate performance as a single system. The connections are implemented by high speed network, such as Infiniband or 10Gb/s ethernet, or some other dedicated network. Architectures of this type can be scaled (at least theoretically) to huge sizes, the only limiting factors being electrical consumption, cooling and room space of the data-center.
Medicine
- — Genetics
- — “in silico“
- — Drug Design
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Physics
- — Meteorological and Climate Models
- — Nuclear and particle Physics
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Chemistry
- — Properties of Atoms and Molecules
- — Corelation between Structure and Reaktivity
- — ...
Ekonomika
- — Investment Risk
- — Stock Growth
- — ...
