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Applications Categories

 

These application categories [1] have been developed for their relevance to scientific and engineering as well as industrial and commercial HPCC activities. Another good list of applications categories is given in [3]. These categories form the basis for a ``roadmap of HPCC applications'', an online information resource available on the World Wide Web as part of the National HPCC Software Exchange [4]. The headings are given here.

a
Information Creation - Simulation

1
Computational Fluid Dynamics
2
Structural Dynamics
3
Electromagnetic Simulation
4
Scheduling
5
Environmental Modeling
6
Health and Biological Modeling
7
Basic Chemistry
8
Molecular Dynamics
9
Economic and Financial Modeling
10
Network Simulations
11
Particle Flux Transport Simulations
12
Graphics Rendering
13
Integrated Complex Simulations

b
Information Analysis - Data Mining

14
Seismic Data Analysis
15
Image Processing
16
Statistical Analysis
17
Healthcare and Insurance Fraud
18
Market Segmentation Analysis

c
Information Access - InfoVision

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Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
20
Collaboratory Systems (eg WWW)
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Text on-Demand
22
Video on-Demand
23
Imagery on-Demand
24
Simulation on-Demand

d
Information Integration - Systems of Systems

25
Command, Control and Intelligence (C2I)
26
Personal Decision Support
27
Corporate Decision Support
28
Government Decision Support
29
Real Time Control Systems
30
Electronic Banking
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Electronic Shopping
32
Agile Manufacturing
33
Education

Historically parallel and HPCC systems have only addressed science and engineering simulation applications. This is now changing, as indeed it must to allow HPCC a broader base of support for long term viability.



Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu