To date, most of the emphasis for high performance computing (HPC) has been on numerically intensive simulations (oil reservoir simulations, molecular dynamics modelling etc.), real time systems and control applications (hardware and robotics control; speech processing; pattern recognition etc.).
Yet advances in storage, processors, networking, parallel processing, clustering, multiprocessing and so on have increased the performance, reduced the price and eliminated the risk of applying high-performance computing solutions to commercial business systems.
At the same time there is an increased demand for high-end systems in terms of performance, scalability, robustness and scalability. Heavily trafficked E-commerce systems; data warehouse, BI and data mining systems; OLTP, modelling, multi-media systems, etc. provides examples of such systems.
As the first IT event dedicated to the application of HPC solutions to commercial business systems, the Corporate High-Performance Computing Conference is perfectly positioned at the intersection of the "corporate pull" and "vendor push" vectors.
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