{"id":5794,"date":"2015-06-26T09:28:15","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T08:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2015-06-26T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T08:28:15","slug":"what-is-high-performance-computing-hpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5794","title":{"rendered":"What is High Performance Computing (HPC)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hang out with a lot of people who work in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC) and learned long ago that a great conversation starter when in a room full of HPC experts is to ask the question <strong>&#8216;So&#8230;what IS High Performance Computing&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong>and then offer some opinion of my own.\u00a0This apparently simple question can lead to some very heated debates!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling in a curious mood and am wondering if this would work as a conversation starter for a blog post. So, here goes&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;What IS High Performance Computing? I think it&#8217;s anything that requires more computational resources (memory, disk, CPU\/GPU) than is available on a typical half-decent laptop or desktop&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s your view? Comments are open!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hang out with a lot of people who work in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC) and learned long ago that a great conversation starter when in a room full of HPC experts is to ask the question &#8216;So&#8230;what IS High Performance Computing&#8217;\u00a0and then offer some opinion of my own.\u00a0This apparently simple question [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hpc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1vs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5796,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5794\/revisions\/5796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}