High Performance Computing Report - Fundamentals and Applications

This report provides a comprehensive overview of High Performance Computing (HPC), beginning with its fundamental concepts and the motivation behind its selection. It delves into the contributions of HPC in both academia and industry, highlighting its applications across diverse fields such as healthcare, aerospace, automotive, and finance. The report examines the role of HPC in scientific research, robotics, and student projects. It also details the learning outcomes associated with HPC, emphasizing the utilization of supercomputers and parallel processing. The report concludes by summarizing the transformative impact of HPC on various industries, underscoring its ability to enhance performance, reduce costs, and facilitate complex simulations. The references used for the report are also included.

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Table of Contents
1. Fundamentals of high performance computing..................................................................2
2. Motivation behind selecting this topic................................................................................2
3. Contribution of this topic in academia and industry...........................................................3
4. Applications........................................................................................................................4
5. Learning outcomes..............................................................................................................5
6. Conclusion..........................................................................................................................5
7. References...........................................................................................................................6

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1. Fundamentals of high performance computing
The high performance computing is mentioned as an essential tool in the research field.
However, nowadays most of the research problems are operated by simulations and for that
the results of those researches are tested by computational simulations. The researchers
provide lots of efforts to solve such complex computational problems [2]. In that case, the
high performance computing executes a wide variety of systems from the desktop computers
with the help of large type of parallel processing system. This system is measured as the
ability of processing of data and performing of complex calculations at the high speeds. The
supercomputers may play as the example of high performance computing which helps to
solve complex computational problems.
2. Motivation behind selecting this topic
Fundamentally, the high performance computing involves supercomputers which may
help to solve the complex computational problems. In the recent world, several scientific
discoveries are created as well as happens various innovations in game development process
and also improvement of quality of life and all of them are occurred through computational
data. Therefore, in that case, complexity arises in those computational simulations [1].
Moreover, in various technologies like internet of things as well as artificial intelligence,
there also exists a variety of computational simulations. In that case, the high performance
computing helps to resolve the complex simulations. Moreover, most of the organizations
face several simulation issues in the area of testing new products as well as analysing of
stocks or tracking development events. In that case, this high performance computing also
helps to solve the complexity in simulations process through data or programming languages.
However, this type computing literally helps to improve the organizational performance as

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well as making of competition with other equivalent companies and also develop new reliable
IT related infrastructure which can involve the processing of storing or analysing data.
3. Contribution of this topic in academia and industry
The high performance computing is attached with complexity based computational
simulations, therefore this system is applied in various industry as well as academia sectors
also [3]. The applications of this computing can be seen in most of the industries starting
from healthcare industry to urban planning.
Healthcare – In the healthcare industry, the system is applicable in variety of fields. For such
projects, the researchers can make a simulated human heart by simulation programming and
also conduct many cardiovascular tests in surgical procedures. These kinds of heart projects
are mainly used to test various pacemaker attachment protocols.
Aerospace – The high performance computing system can help to the aircraft manufacturers
for decreasing timeline for designing or production for the new aircrafts. However, this
simulation system allows the developers for improving the aircraft design and simulating the
functional operation of aircrafts components.
Automotive – In this industry, the HPC is also used to design various vehicles as well as their
components by simulation system and it also helps to reduce the design cost.
Steel and Welding industry – The high performance computing has converted the
manufacturing processes in this industry by using cloud oriented tool [5]. This tool simulates
the welding processes related with metal based product manufacturing process.
Good packaging manufacturing industry – The supercomputing system helps to understand
the preparations of the molecular levels of huge number of products like shampoos as well as
soaps and also diapers so that it can help to improve the product performance.

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Finance – The high performance computing system helps to measure the risks in the
financial operations in various market scenarios and also allows to solve various complex
calculations in just few minutes [4].
Sports – This high performance computing helps in this sports or entertainment related
industries to ensure the evaluation of the amount of fare of the batters against various kinds of
pitchers.
Scientific research – Beyond the commercial applications, the high performance computing
has converted this industry across various streams and provides a tremendous contributions in
different areas like weather forecasting as well as space research.
Robotics – The HPC system contributes programming skills for coordinating the time
sensitive robotic tasks [6].
Students’ projects – In the field of computational science, the high performance computing is
mainly simulates various computational simulations by applying programming skills.
4. Applications
The high performance computing system involves a number of supercomputers for
simulating a set of computational simulations by using programming skills [9]. By using
these skills, this system is applicable in variety of fields like product manufacturing, scientific
research as well as aerospace, healthcare industries etc. This system not only involves in
various industries but also it applies in academia industry [7]. In academics, the high
performance computing system provides his major contributions in robotics by designing
various time sensitive robotics tasks. Also, this system solves many complex computational
simulations within few minutes.

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5. Learning outcomes
The high performance computing is mainly basically the applications of the
supercomputers for solving the computational problems which are too large or long for the
general computers [8]. This high performance computing system involves cluster which
contains a number of compute servers which are interacted each other through a network.
Each of the servers are connected together in parallel way for boosting up the speed of the
high performance computing [10]. This computing system is applicable in a variety of
industries like aerospace as well as healthcare, product manufacturing, academia, automotive,
welding industry and others also.
6. Conclusion
According to this context of high performance computing, in the ending part, it can be
finished in this way that the high performance computing is integration of the use of
supercomputers which may help to solve various computational simulations. In various
industries, the computing system helps to create a transformation by simulations process or
programming skills. The involvement of this computing system helps to improve the
performance and reduce the design related cost. With the help of this computing system, most
of the people can understand the assembling language which are produced at various
optimizations levels as well as various computer architectures.

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