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Foil 11 What is Status of HPCC Applications?

From HPCC Status -- TeraFlop to Web and Petaflops -- Success and Failure Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

Parallel Computing Works in Nearly all scientific and engineering applications

As described in Book Parallel Computing Works! (Fox,Messina,Williams)
The necessary algorithms are in general understood in most cases
The implementation of -- especially adaptive irregular -- algorithms is not easy because:
The software tools are immature and do not usually offer direct help for say:
  • Adaptive (un)structured meshs
  • Fast multipole method for particle dynamics
There are several different approachs and not clear what will "win" and what will actually "work" when
Need abstractions of the "hard" problem (component)s and toolkits to tackle them
  • Templates will describe promising approach


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