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.