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High-Performance Computers

We all know the "monster machines" form companies like Cray and IMB with all this huge computer that looks scary sometimes. But what is high-performance computing? 

As Albert Einstein said, "We can't solve problems by using the same king of thinking we used when we created them".

High-Performance Computing most generally refers to the process of aggregating computing power in a way that delivers much higher performance that one cloud gets out of a typical desktop computer or workstations, these computers solve large problems in science, engineering, or business.

Some common but complex problems that involve high-performance computing accuracy are:

Biosciences

Geographical data

Oil and gas industry modeling

Electric design and automation

Climate modeling

Car and aircraft design.

There dozens more topics that involve high-performance computing, this is just a brief introduction of what HPC does.

The top500 list is a list with the most powerful HPC and the most powerful of them is surprisingly the Chines Sunway TaihuLight is over 10 Million Cores.

Sunway TaihuLight - Sunway SW26010- by National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China (has 10,649,600 Cores)

Summit - IBM Power System AC922, by IBM, United States (has 2,414,592 Cores) 

Sierra - IBM Power System S922LC, by IMB, United States(has 1,572,480 Cores).

Just like any other desktop or laptop we use, the HPC cluster will not run without software. The two most popular choices for HPC software is Linux(open-source Operating System) and Windows. Moreover, the most common programming language used for High-Performance Computing problems is C and C#, along with parallel programming(a way to program using threads). 

To sum up, every problem has a solution, some of them are easy or hard and some of them are HPC.!

Source: https://www.techopedia.com/definition/4595/high-performance-computing-hpc

Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/supercomputing-could-solve-many-of-the-world-s-problems-and-create-many-more/

Source: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/supercomputing-could-solve-many-of-the-world-s-problems-and-create-many-more/

Source: https://www.top500.org/lists/2019/06/

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Web Development Trends

Surely, when it comes to technology and the new trend in this particular field, everything is so variable and unpredictable. 

2019 surprised us with various new topics in web development, cybersecurity and more. 

People are always excited to know and learn new in-demand trends frameworks, programming languages or latest updates on web design and software applications.

This article is about the top 4 in my opinion Web Development trends in 2019.

In 2015 google introduced the first Accelerated Mobile Pages(AMP).  AMP is a technology that allows developers to concentrate more on Mobile Mode Websites, this web page can load up to 20 seconds faster than a non-AMP page. To be able to create such websites we should be ready to use a new technology called "AMP HTML open framework". 

Progressive Web Apps (PWA), is one of the most in-demand trends in web development. It allows us "developers" to create web pages that are complementary to  Native Android Applications, therefore, navigating on such websites is more user-friendly.

Voice Search Optimization, is a trend that we can not overlook. According to Gartner, by 2020, 30% of all searches will be done without using a screen. Moreover, it is worth to mention the smart speakers that year by year keeps on rinsing. Technology to use for Voice Search Optimization is Web Search API. This API is divided into two components: speech recognition and speech synthesis.

Motion UI, nowadays, every web page designer strives to make more attractive motion effects for their webpages. Motion UI, is a library, and a perfect solution to capture users' attention with beautiful animations. Furthermore, Motion UI is flexible enough an works with any JavaScript framework.

Bottom line, 2019 was/is a very productive year for web development trends. 

If you have planned to learn or update your web page it is the perfect time to do so.

Source : https://www.codingdojo.com/blog/web-development-trends-of-2019

Source: https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/?referrer=ampproject.org

Source: https://www.cleveroad.com/blog/how-to-build-a-progressive-web-app-best-tools-and-examples 

Source: https:// https://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartner-predicts-a-virtual-world-of-exponential-change/

Source: https://zurb.com/playground/motion-ui 

Image source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/blue-screen-of-death-in-silver-black-laptop-177598/