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The HPC Advisory Council has announced that it has reached over 50 Best Practices for a multitude of high-performance applications. The HPC Advisory Council provides best practices, which through experience and research, have shown to improve clustering and applications efficiency, scalability and productivity.

“The Council’s best practices results in faster simulations, quicker time-to-market for consumer-based products, ease-of-use for IT staff when setting up and maintaining clusters, and getting the maximum return on their infrastructure investment”, says Gilad Shainer, chairman of the HPC Advisory Council. “In just over two years, the Council has become a valuable resource for IT end-users who require open source or commercial HPC and cloud-based application performance guidelines and best practices for some of their most important networking and infrastructure purchasing decisions.”

With over 50 best practices developed for over 26 HPC and cloud-based applications, the HPC Advisory Council is providing the HPC end-user community valuable information to improve their system and application usage. Such applications include, but not limited to, automotive design, weather forecasting, chemical and biological interactions, crash simulations, and atmospheric research. For more information, please visit the HPC Advisory Council Best Practices website.

“One of the Council’s main goals is HPC outreach and education, and with its nearly 170 member organizations, is proud to achieve this remarkable number of published best practices,” said Scot Schultz, director of educational outreach for the HPC Advisory Council. “In parallel of publishing our work for the behalf of the HPC community, we present and provide hands-on training through our many international council workshops throughout each year. We welcome new application best practice suggestions from the HPC community and look forward to continue and enrich our publication database.”

“The council’s vision and focus on deeper understanding of emerging capabilities and industry trends - such as Cloud, HPCaaS and Virtualized HPC –is driving the evolution of HPC far beyond its traditional definition and understanding,” said Cydney Stevens, HPC Advisory Council Research Steering Committee. “In addition to its growing compendium of performance and optimization best practices, across a broad range of platforms and architectures for traditional applications and workloads, the council is providing the community a forum that actively challenges and encourages interactive participation bridging the expertise and disciplines of the past to the next generation usage models.”