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Vignettes in HPCC Applications

 

We believe that applying modelling and simulation to everyday life would expand the market for HPCC systems. Addressing industry and new and innovative applications therefore seems very important, since only by attracting the necessary industry-driven investment will HPCC survive in the long term.

The group identified the following areas of special interest for HPCC application. Some are already being addressed, others may have to involve HPCC in the future for a solution.

  1. NASTRAN and the Structural Engineering problem (see section 4.3 below);
  2. Real time embedded systems for medical and military applications (see section 4.1 below);
  3. Aerospace manufacturing and high end CFD (see section 4.2 below);
  4. Crisis and emergency management;
  5. Nuclear Weapons and the stewardship of the nuclear stockpile;
  6. Environmental modelling;
  7. Mission to Planet Earth;
  8. Financial instrument modelling;
  9. National and international power grid modelling and optimisation ;
  10. Computational chemistry;
  11. Intelligent vehicle highway systems;
  12. QCD.

Three of these are especially worth focusing upon in terms of current issues for HPCC applications characteristics and requirements: Real-Time Embedded Systems; Aerospace Engineering; and Structural Engineering. A brief account of industrial uptake in the UK and Europe is also given (section 4.4) to outline a possible means of addressing the issues identified.





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