from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
High Performance Computing and Communications
HPCC
(HPCC) High performance computing includes scientific
workstations, supercomputer systems, high speed networks,
special purpose and experimental systems, the new generation
of large scale parallel systems, and application and systems
software with all components well integrated and linked over a
high speed network.
["Grand Challenges 1993: High Performance Computing and
Communications", Committee on Physical, Mathematical and
Engineering Sciences of the Federal Coordinating Council for
Science, Engineering and Technology.]