Abstract :
High performance computing systems are used to develop software in a wide variety of domains including nuclear physics, crash simulation, satellite data processing, fluid dynamics, climate modeling, bioinformatics, and financial modeling. The TOP500 website (http://www.top500.org) lists the top 500 high performance computing systems. The diversity of government, scientific, and commercial organizations present on this list illustrates the growing prevalence and impact of HPC applications on modern society.
