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These application categories [1] have been developed for their
relevance to scientific and engineering as well as industrial and
commercial HPCC activities. Another good list of applications
categories is given in [3]. These categories form the
basis for a ``roadmap of HPCC applications'', an online information
resource available on the World Wide Web as part of the National HPCC
Software Exchange
[4]. The headings are given here.
- a
- Information Creation - Simulation
- 1
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- 2
- Structural Dynamics
- 3
- Electromagnetic Simulation
- 4
- Scheduling
- 5
- Environmental Modeling
- 6
- Health and Biological Modeling
- 7
- Basic Chemistry
- 8
- Molecular Dynamics
- 9
- Economic and Financial Modeling
- 10
- Network Simulations
- 11
- Particle Flux Transport Simulations
- 12
- Graphics Rendering
- 13
- Integrated Complex Simulations
- b
- Information Analysis - Data Mining
- 14
- Seismic Data Analysis
- 15
- Image Processing
- 16
- Statistical Analysis
- 17
- Healthcare and Insurance Fraud
- 18
- Market Segmentation Analysis
- c
- Information Access - InfoVision
- 19
- Online Transaction Processing (OLTP)
- 20
- Collaboratory Systems (eg WWW)
- 21
- Text on-Demand
- 22
- Video on-Demand
- 23
- Imagery on-Demand
- 24
- Simulation on-Demand
- d
- Information Integration - Systems of Systems
- 25
- Command, Control and Intelligence (C2I)
- 26
- Personal Decision Support
- 27
- Corporate Decision Support
- 28
- Government Decision Support
- 29
- Real Time Control Systems
- 30
- Electronic Banking
- 31
- Electronic Shopping
- 32
- Agile Manufacturing
- 33
- Education
Historically parallel and HPCC systems have only addressed science and
engineering simulation applications. This is now changing, as indeed it must
to allow HPCC a broader base of support for long term viability.
Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu