High performance computing

HPC (Computer science)

Work cat.: 95-214906: High performance computing, 1995: p. v (We define High Performance Computing (HPC) as an integrated computing environment that includes software, algorithms, programming tools, and visualization, and enables solving compute intensive problems) p. 3 (High Performance Computing (HPC), synonymous with Supercomputing, orginated in the late 1970s and has spread dramatically in the current decade. Initially limited to applications in defense industry and several high technology industries, HPC is now entering other sectors of business, industry and science)
ASTI, June, 1995.
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Federal High Performance Computing Program (U.S.); High Performance Computing Act of 1991.
Freedman, A. Computer glossary, 1993: High-Performance Computing (Federal initiative to enhance U.S. computing capability that includes a T3-speed network linking agencies, private companies and schools to supercomputer centers; HPC)