Erlang is about reliability, hpc is about performance (literally in the name)
Erlang is also about orchestration - which HPC tends to need a fair bit of once you are out of the realm of embarrassingly parallel problems
Most HPC job queue cluster partition batching I saw was stone-age primitive by comparison. =3
Erlang is also about orchestration - which HPC tends to need a fair bit of once you are out of the realm of embarrassingly parallel problems