High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Why do we need it ?

Compared to serial computing, using computer clusters and parallel computing is much better suited for modeling, simulating and understanding complex problems.

Main Reasons:

• Throwing more resources at a task will shorten its time to completion
• Many problems are so large and/or complex that it is impractical or impossible to solve them on a single computer, especially given limited computer memory
• A single compute resource can only do one thing at a time. Multiple compute resources can do many things simultaneously