NPAC Technical Report SCCS-741

Characteristics of HPC Scientific and Engineering Applications - Report of Working Group 2 of the Second Pasadena Workshop on System Software and Tools for High Performance Computing Environments

Geoffrey Fox, Kenneth Hawick, Andrew White

Submitted January 12 1995


Abstract

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(HPC) 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 HPC as well as a number of applications and algorithmic characteristics, such as irregular data structures, code size, complexity, real-time to solution, data storage requirements and data access rates, indicating their potential for studying the relevance of high performance computing systems. We also identified a number of important non-technical issues such as 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.


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