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Summary

 

This document summarises the discussions, conclusions and recommendations of Working Group 2 of the Second Pasadena Workshop on System Software on Tools for High Performance Computing Environments. The group discussed the outlook for High Performance Computing in the context of the disappointingly low uptake of HPC by industry and commerce. We identified a number of novel applications areas not hitherto able to exploit HPCC as well as a number of applications and algorithmic characteristics, such as code size, complexity, real-time to solution, data storage requirements and data access rates, indicating their potential suitability for exploitation of high performance computing systems. We note the need for collaborative enterprise models between industry, developers, and customer end-users to further the successful uptake of HPC technology and to reap the potential economic benefits of so doing.



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