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High Throughput Computing

Parallel paradigms: HPC vs. HTC

Serial computation

Serial computation

Parallel computation

Parallel computation

Why go parallel?

Speed - Solve a problem more quickly

Image Credit: NASA - Hurricane Katrina @ 50-km (2005) resolution

Scale - Solve a larger, more complex problem with higher fidelity

Image Credit: NASA - Hurricane Katrina @ 6.25-km (2015) resolution

Throughput - Solve many (simple) problems more quickly

Image Credit: IceCube- Glashow Event

Image Credit: IceCube, SDSC/UCSD - GPU Cloud Burst Experiment

Next - Batch job arrays