Topic 15: High Performance and Scientific Applications

摘要

Many fields of science and engineering are characterized by an increasing demand for computational resources. Coupled with important algorithmic advances, high performance computing allows for the gain of new results and insights by utilizing powerful computers and big storage systems. Workflows in science and engineering produce huge amounts of data through numerical simulations and derive new knowledge by a subsequent analysis of this data. Progress in these fields depends on the availability of HPC environments, from medium sized teraflops systems up to leading petaflops systems. The High Performance and Scientific Applications Topic highlights recent progress in the use of high performance parallel computing and puts an emphasis on success stories, advances of the state-of-the-art and lessons learned in the development and deployment of novel scientific and engineering applications.