What is a high performance computing cluster?
Traditionally, high performance computing (HPC) has been the domain of supercomputers. These solutions were difficult to install, maintain and use and were typically limited to research communities. They ran on expensive proprietary software that only the researchers themselves knew how to use. As a result, users not only had to be experts in their field of scientific research, they also had to maintain an advanced knowledge of computer science.A high performance computing cluster (HPCC) is a powerful and economical solution for enhancing your research environments. An HPCC is a group of commercial off-the-shelf computers interlinked via high-speed interconnects to create a robust, high-speed computing resource that rivals the performance of traditional mainframe supercomputers at a fraction of the cost.In a typical HPCC, the interlinked computers work concurrently to complete a request by dividing the work among the server nodes, reassembling the results and presenting them to the cli
