Uses of High Performance Computing

Having looked at the ways computers are designed to run more quickly, the final and most important question to face is what can be done with HPC. If not for advances in HPC, you would not be ready this page, or typing out reports or letters, or playing DOOM (not on company time, of course). Simple put, all computers from the one sitting on your desk to massive computers used for research are all high performance computers. Anything that can be done on a computer can be done because of all the people who tried to find a better, quicker way.

Of course, the applications of more stringently defined super computers is the ability to execute massive programs. Figuring out pi to a sick amount of digits is possible, as well as creating massively complex simulations concerning anything from climatic tendencies to the tendencies of nuclear reactors (which simply could not be tested in the real world).

Basically, HPC is about making computers do whatever we want them to do, but faster.

Okay, I know what your thinking: your computer can't cook your breakfast, but... Well, let's give it a few years.

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