HPC, high-performance computing.

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I am very pleased that he had been at the presentation of Windows HPC Server 2008 R2. Talked about the topic, in my opinion, there was not very clear (I already wrote about it. http://cloudclub-ru. blogspot. com/2010/11/windows-hpc-server-2008-r2. html. ), But forced to pay attention to this area. About HPC of course, I 've heard a lot earlier, but fell on deaf ears.
I just thought - this is probably a very promising and useful thing!.
Communicate with other -' great scientist '. And he says - ' we need it '.

I, too, at one time ( to be exact - for many years) engaged in ' science and technology ' calculation ( there is a funny photo - Laplace's equation on the CM -1, with the memory of 64 KB,. http://cloudclub-ru. blogspot. com/2010/10/80. html. ).

amusingly. In the 90 years I have had a series of articles on Fortran, the latter was written in the 98th year. I thought that with ' computing ' tied up forever, but now, looking back will:-).

By the way, one more interesting point. In April 1999 I started a web site. And then it was made ​​precisely in order to put the archive somewhere publication as Fortran times - I wrote to people asking for articles. It all started with this page:. http://www. visual. 2000. ru / develop / fortran / index. htm.

In the beginning it is a question -answer interview with some great IT expert:.

Q: What programming languages ​​will be used for settlement of scientific problems in the XXI century?.
ANSWER: Different. But chief among them is the Fortran.

Pro Fortran I remembered, because in conversations on the HPC about it regularly comes to talk.

In short, the question arises: how you have been deemed, HPC ( not MS- product, and direction) - this is true with us?.