Document Type
Working Paper
Date
1996
Keywords
HPCC, computational chemistry, Monte Carlo, computational fluid dynamics
Language
English
Disciplines
Computer Sciences
Description/Abstract
We review possible and probable industrial applications of HPCC focusing on the software and hardware issues. Thirty-three separate categories are illustrated by detailed descriptions of five areas -- computational chemistry; Monte Carlo methods from physics to economics; manufacturing; and computational fluid dynamics; command and control; or crisis management; and multimedia services to client computers and settop boxes. The hardware varies from tightly-coupled parallel supercomputers to heterogeneous distributed systems. The software models span HPF and data parallelism, to distributed information systems and object/data flow parallelism on the Web. We find that in each case, it is reasonably clear that "HPCC works in principle," and postulate that this knowledge can be used in a new generation of software infrastructure based on the WebWindows approach, and discussed in an accompanying paper.
Recommended Citation
Fox, Geoffrey C., "An Application Perspective on High-Performance Computing and Communications" (1996). Northeast Parallel Architecture Center. 45.
https://surface.syr.edu/npac/45
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Additional Information
Technical Report SCCS-757