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High Performance Distributed Computing

// March 19th, 2009 // HPDC

High performance distributed computing also known as HPDC is the effective development and use of software on distributed memory supercomputing clusters. Developing code that is optimized is a challenging task for many reasons. One issue is the semantic gap between the processor and the language you choose to develop with. The higher abstract the language, the less performance you realize from the processor. Also often the resources of cluster computing are under utilized. This is because it is challenging to extract area of code that can be run concurrently. Most of the time jobs are run in serial.

I have big interest in HPDC and this section of my blog is all about HPDC. Most of my examples are with C unless stated otherwise. I hope you learn from this section and don’t hesitate to ask questions!