An Application Perspective on High-Performance Computing and Communications
Geoffrey Fox · Syracuse University Libraries (Syracuse University) · 1996
We review possible and probable industrial applications of HPCC focusing on the soft-ware and hardware issues. Thirty-three separate categories are illustrated by detailed de-scriptions of ve areas|computational chemistry; Monte Carlo methods from physics to economics; manufacturing, and computational uid 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 ow parallelism on the Web. We nd 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. 1