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:
- Discover new medicines and ground-breaking medical treatments.
- Predict severe meteorological events before they occur.
- Train complex artificial intelligence models.
- Study the effects of climate change on local ecosystems.
- Identify new renewable energy sources.
- And more.
Ubuntu also needs an HPC team because open source software drives innovation. With the explosion…