Europort-D: parallel computing for European industry

Author

Stüben, Klaus

Author_Institution

Nat. Res. Center for Inf. Technol, Germany

Volume

5

Issue

4

fYear

1997

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

10

Abstract

The paper discusses the highly successful European Esprit initiative Europort. The initiative migrated 35 industrial codes to parallel platforms in a portable way, covering almost the whole spectrum of industrial applications for which HPC is essential. Where costly high-computing power was the main bottleneck for numerical simulation, the availability of parallel software now allows a substantial step forward. The paper considers the follow up project Europort-D, managed by the Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) of the German National Research Center of Information Technology (GMD). For ten different application areas, new end users have demonstrated the business benefits parallel-computing technology can provide for their industry

Keywords

industries; natural sciences computing; numerical analysis; parallel processing; research initiatives; software portability; European Esprit initiative; European industry; Europort-D; German National Research Center of Information Technology; HPC; Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing; business benefits; high-computing power; industrial applications; industrial codes; numerical simulation; parallel computing; parallel platforms; parallel software; software portability; Application software; Business; Computational modeling; Computer crashes; Computer industry; Fluid dynamics; Information technology; Numerical simulation; Parallel processing; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Concurrency, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1092-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4434.641619

Filename

641619