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What makes a helicopter fly? This is the sort of question that interests science and industry to the same degree. A supercomputer can be used to simulate and visualise air flow patterns and to demonstrate the change in the rotors and their tension and rotation patterns during movement.
Important fields of research that rely on the high computing performance of supercomputers are, for example, the various engineering disciplines, nanotechnology, biotechnology, medicine, and materials research. For the automotive industry, for example, extensive simulations such as simulated crash tests or air resistance measurements, mean shorter development times and lower costs than would be the case with actual crash tests or wind tunnel experiments.
In order to intensify its relations with the research experts at the HLRS, NEC has entered into a public-private partnership for the first time in its history. The aim of the joint project called ‘Teraflop Workbench’ is to help scientists at the HLRS to boost the speed of their applications to several teraflops. NEC is putting hardware support and manpower at the disposal of the HLRS. Another goal of the ‘Teraflop Workbench’ project is to investigate networking concepts for the future. Partial tasks of a computing process should be calculated on the most suitable architecture for that process.
Adaptive application programmes, which standardise and simplify the application, must be developed for cases where a variety of computing architectures such as vector computers, clusters, or Itanium-2 servers are united under one roof. This is a prerequisite for efficient work within a European grid of supercomputers. Programmes such as the HPC-Europa / HPC Europe project and the European grid initiative DEISA offer opportunities for exchange and multi-national access to resources and research opportunities at a high level in the HLRS.
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High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2005
High Performance Computing on Vector Systems 2006
