Some Comments on Simulation and HPCC
HPCC is a maturing field with many organizations installing large scale systems
These include NSF (academic computations) with PACI activity, DoE (Dept of Energy) with ASCI and DoD (Defense) with Modernization
- New Terascale initiative from NSF provides $36M for new machine (http://www.interact.nsf.gov/cise/descriptions.nsf/pd/tcs/)
There are new applications with new algorithmic challenges
- Web Search and Hosting Applications
- 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
These have many new issues but typically issue is integrating new systems and not some new mathematical idea