What is High Performance Compute (HPC)?

- [Instructor] Now I don't mean to reveal my age here, … but I grew up in a time … when computers were just entering the home. … It was not common to have one on my street. … When I was 12 years old, I was playing with an IBM PC XT … that ran plain old DOS operating system. … The PC XT ran an Intel 8088 chip that Wikipedia tells me … performs 430,000 operations per second. … At the same time as this, supercomputer makers … were battling it out for dominance in the business space. … The Cray 1, which is a dream computer to me at the time, … could perform a blistering 160 million … floating point operations per second. … My IBM XT and the Cray 1 are not really directly comparable … like comparing a remote control car … to a Lamborghini Countach. … But if you were a geek in the 1970s, … perhaps you had a picture of a Cray on your bedroom wall, … or maybe that was only me. … This brings us to today. … But first, how cool is it that you can get a Cray XC series … or CS series supercomputer in Azure? …