[Beowulf] Definition of HPC

[Lux, Jim (337C)]

> "A high-performance computing system is designed to use one or more 
> computers to achieve the maximum performance possible on a particular 
> computational task."

I may have to add the "to achieve the maximum performance possible on a particular computational task" to my definition. I like it. It makes a distinction between an old slow laptop with bloatware and viruses on and one that, you know, is actually getting work done.

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One might consider Matlab in its recent incarnations as bloatware  (300 MB runtime system!)