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HPC for the Rest of Us - Part 1
The term supercomputing typically conjures daunting images of large and expensive computer systems, coupled with complicated technology for scientific and engineering "number crunching". This article provides the first steps towards helping the rest of us in understanding what HPC involves, and what it means to us.
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