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Podcast: News Bites
Episode: HPC Win, U.K. Bird Flu, TianGong Space Station
Description: Ready to chow down? 準備好大吃一頓了嗎？
You're listening to another episode of News Bites!
I'm Paz Bueno…
And I'm Trevor Tortomasi.
In today's news:
Taiwanese students overcome odds to win, fewer turkeys for Christmas, and China's new space crew.
Stay tuned and we'll tell you more about these stories, coming up next!
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NTHU Students Win Computer Competition
For our first story, we're talking about high-performance computing (高效能運算) or HPC.
HPC is the ability to process data and perform complicated calculations at high speeds.
HPC 是高速處理數據和複雜計算。
It sounds pretty difficult (困難), doesn't it?
Well, a team of students from National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學) finished first place in an HPC competition!
Last month, NTHU computer science professor Jerry Chou led a team of six students...