What Is High Performance Computing (HPC?
SUSE, Monday, February 23rd, 2026
When scientists need to model climate change over decades, when engineers test vehicle designs through millions of simulated crashes, when enterprises train Generative AI models reshaping industries, or when researchers sequence entire human genomes in hours rather than years, they turn to high performance computing.
These aren't just faster computers running the same old programs. HPC represents a fundamental shift in how we approach computational problems that would take traditional systems months or even years to solve.
What is high performance computing (HPC)?
High performance computing is a class of workloads that aggregates computing power from multiple interconnected systems to process massive datasets and solve complex problems at speeds far beyond what standard computers can achieve. Today, HPC and AI have become virtually synonymous; there is no modern AI strategy without the high-performance infrastructure required to train and run it.