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Foil 19 Some Comments on Simulation and HPCC

From Master Set of Foils for 1997 Session of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox


HPCC is a maturing field with many organizations installing large scale systems
These include NSF (academic computations), DoE (Dept of Energy) and DoD (Defense)
There are new applications with new algorithmic challenges
  • Our work on Black Holes has novel adaptive meshes
  • On earthquake simulation, new "fast multipole" approaches to a problem not tackled this way before
  • On financial modeling, new Monte Carlo methods for complex options
However these are not "qualitatively" new concepts
Software ideas are "sound" but note simulation is only a few percent of total computer market
  • Use where possible software from other sources (such as web)which can spend more money on each feature!



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