I have seen that packages designated with “hpc” – high performance computing, are used for computer clusters and major research computing environments. It does appear that there are non “hpc” similarly labeled packages. I do scientific computing and compile much of my software but on a moderate-to-high level pc (intel i7). Nothing extraordinary by today’s standards.
Over the years though I have gotten dozens of hpc packages installed. I don’t remember the circumstances.
I don’t know if I am really using any “hpc” packages. Could I remove these hpc packages just to recover the disk space? Is there any reason to keep these?
Of course, I will look at what might be removed along with the “hpc” package.
Thanks for any insights. tom kosvic