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Foil 18 Some Comments on Simulation and HPCC

From CPS615-Introduction-Course,Driving Technology and HPCC Current Status and Futures CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- Fall Semester 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox, (Some Culler, Koelbel material)


1 HPCC is a maturing field with many organizations installing large scale systems
2 These include NSF (academic computations) with PACI activity, DoE (Dept of Energy) with ASCI and DoD (Defense) with Modernization
3 There are new applications with new algorithmic challenges
  • 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
4 However these are not "qualitatively" new concepts
5 Software ideas are "sound" but note simulation is only a few percent of total computer market and software immature
  • Use where possible software from other sources (such as web)which can spend more money on each feature!

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