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Foil 6 The President's High Performance Computing and Communication Initiative (HPCCI)

From Complex Systems and Parallel Computing CPSP713 Case studies in Computational Science -- Spring Semester 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 $2.9 billion over 5 years
2 The Grand Challenges
  • Enabled by teraflop computers and important to economy or fundamental research
    • Global warming - NOAA
    • Oil reservoir and environmental simulation - DOE
    • Structural and aerodynamic calculations - NASA
    • Earth observing satellite - data analysis - NASA
    • Human genome - NIH, DOE
    • Quantum chromodynamics - Fundamental Physics
    • Gravitational waves from black holes - Fundamental Physics
    • Molecular modeling - Fundamental Chemistry
3 Nearly all have industrial payoff but technology transfer NOT funded by HPCCI
in Table To:

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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