{"id":10878,"date":"2025-10-28T17:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T01:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iada.ubd.edu.bn\/?page_id=10878"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:28:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T02:28:06","slug":"what-is-hpc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iada.ubd.edu.bn\/?page_id=10878","title":{"rendered":"What is HPC?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>High performance computing (HPC) allows solving complicated computing problems in a short period of time. Computing is carried out on high-performance computers (shared-memory mainframe, computing cluster) made up by many parallel processors. A modern HPC is an essential element of any contemporary university, and it is used for various purposes ranging from solving engineering problems to b<em>ig data<\/em>\u00a0analysis and machine learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of HPC systems, including the one available at IADA, are designed as computing clusters, which consist of numerous separate servers interconnected by fast computer network . HPC cluster can be used for both parallel computing, providing parallel execution of a large job, and distributed computing, performing several independent tasks on separate servers or processors. In addition, IADA HPC cluster is equipped with powerful NVidia H100 GPU accelerators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why should you use HPC?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>HPC cluster is equipped with high-performance processors and graphical accelerators.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If job is split between several processors, simulation can be accelerated thus resulting in a more detailed research.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Transferring jobs to HPC allows using the personal computer for other work.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>HPC cluster is located in a data centre where uninterruptible power supply, cooling, and administrator supervision is available resulting in less interruptions during the simulation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Many applications have a built-in HPC support facility, which hides the HPC cluster environment from the user.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Not Use a Normal Computer?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#7bdcb5\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Normal Computer<\/mark><\/strong><\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:#8ed1fc\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">HPC System<\/mark><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Limited CPU &amp; RAM<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Many CPUs &amp; GPUs<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Single user focus<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Shared by many users<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Slow for large jobs<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Optimized for performance<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Not scalable<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-center\" data-align=\"center\">Scales to many nodes<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High performance computing (HPC) allows solving complicated computing problems in a short period of time. Computing is carried out on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10878","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iada.ubd.edu.bn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iada.ubd.edu.bn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iada.ubd.edu.bn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iada.ubd.edu.bn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iada.ubd.edu.bn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/iada.ubd.edu.bn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11058,"href":"https:\/\/iada.ubd.edu.bn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10878\/revisions\/11058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iada.ubd.edu.bn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}