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This article is devoted to the description of our activities related to transferring the HPCN technology to SMEs. This work is performed in the framework of the French TTN ProHPC which we briefly describe in the beginning of the paper. Then we move to a more technical description of our activities, which include four projects within the awareness campaign PHPC-ACRA and the participation to a Best Practice...
Currently enterprises are operating in a dynamic environment with respect to both market and work force. As part of the enterprise's quality management, management of the competence of the enterprise is essential for survival of the enterprise. An ICT framework for multi-discipline engineering is described from the viewpoint of competence management. The approach enables that HPCN — as used...
The Netherlands Initiative in CFD for Engineering with HCPN (NICE) aims at increasing the competitiveness of Dutch industry by making available competence in the area of flow simulation on HPCN platforms. The know-how and know-why that is developed is disseminated via a metacomputer for CFD, called HCS. This metacomputer also supports the ability to apply the developed know-how and know-why in industrial...
HWW (Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum für Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft GmbH) is a large german supercomputing facility, that offers it's compute resources to scientific as well as industiral users. This article reports on the applications that industrial users run on the HWW equipment and the computer architectures they use. The current situation is characterized by an increasing demand for compute resources...
We describe here the RAIN project, aimed at demonstrating the use of High Performance Computing and Networking technologies in neural network applications for industry and medicine. The target architecture of the demonstrators is a workstation cluster: a choice suggested by the cost-effectiveness of this architecture. In order to manage both the cluster and the applications running on it, we built...
The Educational System in the Canary Islands has more than 650 centres and no less than 340,000 students. These are distributed in the scope of a community characterised by their fragmentation and insularity. The Autonomous Canary Government has created PINCEL through its Department of Education,Culture and Sport. P.I.N.C.E.L. stands for “Programa de Informatizaci6n de Centros Educativos según la...
The World Wide Web (WWW) is becoming one of the most important ways to access information. Also, the concept of telemedicine captures much of what is developing in terms of technology implementation, especially if it is combined with the growth of the internet and WWW, however there is a need for standards. The EC supported Euromed project is therefore developing a standardised telemedical information...
Within the EUROMED project, we are performing two main tasks concerning the development of software packages in the fields of telemedicine and computer aided diagnosis: CAMD (Computer Aided Medical Diagnosis) and TeleEEG (Telemedical Software Package for EEG). CAMD is an integrated software system which could aid the medical diagnostician during the diagnosis of breast cancer. It is an automatic...
In the recent years the importance of the European audio-visual industry has become apparent and actions have been initiated to strengthen its actors, especially in film making and video production. European companies in the sector assess ways to improve their performance and productivity and become more competitive against American and Asian companies. Most such companies have heavily invested in...
The HIPEROAD project has developed a software system capable of performing a semi-automatic optimisation of the shape of sport cars with respect to their aerodynamical properties. The system utilises an aerodynamic solver implemented on parallel MIMD systems, and features advanced tools for the evolution and meshing of car surfaces. The system allows to include aerodynamic optimisation in the early...
The efficiency of operating stirred tanks, which are extensively used in industry as mixing devices, is largely dependent on the turbulence characteristics of the impeller driven flow field. In this paper we present results of large eddy simulations on stirred tank flow at Reynolds numbers up to 104 on a 1203 computational grid. Because of its computational efficiency on parallel computer platforms,...
The Finite Difference-Time Domain (FD-TD) method is widely used to simulate propagative electromagnetic processes. In this paper we describe the parallel implementation of this method on the massively SIMD parallel processor APE100/Quadrics, discussing the choice of such kind of architecture. The algorithm we implemented is tailored to simulate patch array antennas, giving as result the temporal and...
Atmospheric data such as temperature, moisture, winds, etc., collected by satellites and direct measuements from upper-air instruments, ground observation stations provide only partial information about the atmosphere. They are assimilated to numerical forecasts to provide a coherent, evolving state of the global atmosphere. The data analysis system, the Physical-space Statistical Analysis System...
Unstructured grids can represent the complex geometry of the ocean basin with high fidelity. The lack of development tools supporting irregular grid problems discourages the use of such grids on parallel architectures. The state of the art ocean models are based on logically rectangular grids which makes it difficult to fit the complex ocean boundaries. In this paper, we demonstrate the use of unstructured...
We discuss the implementation of an off-line air quality model (AQM). More precisely, how to design a code for an AQM that runs efficiently on a variety of computer platforms. We implemented our ideas in an AQM benchmark and we show the performance of this benchmark on the different architectural paradigms. A second subject of the paper is the I/O performance of the Cray T3E for an off-line model...
The implementation of the Meteorological Limited Area Model BOLAM on Quadrics, a SIMD massively parallel computer, is discussed. BOLAM is an explicit, primitive equations, hydrostatic, three-dimensional grid point model. The parallel version of this code, QBOLAM, will be one of the components of an integrated numerical system for the prediction of the state of the Mediterranean Sea. The performances...
The application of concepts and methods of statistical mechanics to biological problems is one of the most promising frontiers of computational physics. For instance Cellular Automata (CA), i.e. fully discrete dynamical systems evolving according to boolean laws, appear to be extremely well suited to the simulation of the immune system dynamics. A prominent example of immunological CA...
We present parallel lattice-Boltzmann simulations of fluid flow in a centrifugal elutriation chamber, a cell separation device for human blood cells. The critical factor in this separation technique is the hydrodynamic flow field. Understanding the influence of design parameters of a chamber on the flow field is important in optimizations of this process. Two different issues are considered in this...
Computing physical quantities in lattice quantum chromodynamics means solving huge systems of linear equations (O(107) equations). Efficient parallel Krylov subspace solvers play a vital role in the solution of these systems. We present a detailed analysis of the performance of the stabilized biconjugate gradient algorithm with preconditioning on massively parallel CRAY T3E systems.
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