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Introducing Ubuntu’s new HPC community team

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jul 21, 2023

The High-Performance Computing (HPC) community team is the latest engineering team to join the Ubuntu project. What exactly is HPC? It is a multidisciplinary field that uses supercomputers, and high-performance clusters to solve advanced computational problems. The term “HPC” itself is commonly used to refer to computational science, also known as scientific computing. HPC also involves implementing several programming paradigms such as parallel computing, distributed computing, and grid computing; the list goes on.

So why does Ubuntu need an HPC team? Well… it’s because HPC is everywhere around you! HPC is used to...

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