<s>
The	O
term	O
high-performance	B-General_Concept
fuzzy	I-General_Concept
computing	I-General_Concept
(	O
HPFC	O
)	O
refers	O
to	O
those	O
technologies	O
able	O
to	O
exploit	O
supercomputers	B-Architecture
and	O
computer	B-Architecture
clusters	I-Architecture
to	O
perform	O
high	O
performance	O
fuzzy	O
logic	O
computations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thus	O
HPFC	O
is	O
just	O
a	O
special	O
case	O
of	O
the	O
much	O
more	O
general	O
high-performance	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
specific	O
case	O
of	O
fuzzy	O
logic	O
,	O
however	O
,	O
there	O
exist	O
more	O
traditional	O
ways	O
to	O
achieve	O
high	O
performance	O
,	O
that	O
could	O
be	O
considered	O
HPFC	O
but	O
in	O
a	O
broader	O
sense	O
,	O
like	O
the	O
hardware	O
implementations	O
on	O
DSP	B-Architecture
or	O
FPGA	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
More	O
recently	O
,	O
another	O
alternative	O
has	O
emerged	O
:	O
fuzzy	O
computing	O
on	O
GPU	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
