Use of parallel processing and specialized hardware to solve complex computational problems requiring significant processing power.
High Performance Computing clusters help scientists simulate climate change effects by running millions of calculations simultaneously.
All four offerings help deploy and run HPC workloads on cloud infrastructure. AWS ParallelCluster and Azure CycleCloud focus on creating and managing HPC clusters (often with Slurm). Google Cloud Batch is a managed batch scheduler commonly used for large-scale parallel jobs (and can integrate with HPC VM types). OCI provides HPC-focused architectures and services (including HPC shapes, RDMA networking, and reference deployments) rather than a single cluster product name.