Originally the P in HPC stood for ‘performance’ and, to professionals in the field HPC will always mean ‘high-performance computing’ — also known as supercomputing. As one of those professionals, and as a slight pedant, it always irritated me when people took the P to mean ‘power’, as in ‘high-powered computing’. “It’s performance, not power…” I would mutter through gritted teeth.
Is Supercomputing Just About Performance?
October 30, 2008