Applications overview

High-performance computers and software are used in many areas within both the educational/research and industrial sectors.These tools can be applied wherever the subject matter is amenable to mathematical modelling, as this can be used to predict behaviour of various physical (and indeed hypothetical) systems under various conditions. This can be of use for fields as disparate as molecular-level drug design, to stress modelling of automotive components, to predicting seismic wave propogation through the Earth.

Listed here are a number of case studies for which HPC methods were employed.

Argonne National Laboratory

Industrial case studies mainly from the manufacturing sector.

Caltech

Links to research projects, eg a web-based geographical data retrieval & processing application.

Carleton University

Parallel Spatial Modelling applications:

Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (India)

Overviews & benchmarking information from Computational Fluid Dynamics, Seismic data processing, bioinformatics and medical imaging applications.

CEPBA: European Centre for Parallelism of Barcelona

Sample case studies from:

sectors.

Cornell Theory Center

Case studies for Windows platform HPC from:

sectors.

Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre

Sample case studies from:

e-Science North-West (University of Manchester)

Industry collaborations:

sectors.

Fluent

Case studies from:

Globus Project

Applications of grid computing using the Globus Toolkit.

HLRS High Performance Computing Centre, Stuttgart

Many example projects from:

Information Discovery Inc.

Data mining case studies from automotive & financial industries.

IHPC: Institute of High Performance Computing (Singapore)

Many example projects from:

Maui High Performance Computing Center (University of Hawai'i)

Application briefs from:

NCSA: National Center for Supercomputing Applications

Some case studies from:

NPACI

Mainly science research case studies with a heavy emphasis on visualisation.

Oak Ridge National Laboratories

Environmental studies.

Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Case studies from:

sectors.

San Diego Supercomputing Center

Partnership programs, eg. Bioinformatics, Biomedical Imaging.

Eg. A high performance storage system.

Schlumberger Information Solutions

Case studies from:

sectors.

Includes one in South Australia.

European Centre for Parallel Computing at Vienna

Manufacturing case studies.

Cray

Biomedical applications.
Australian case study example.

Compaq

One case study: Commerzbank-data storage for disaster planning (9/11).

IBM

Case studies from:

sectors.

SGI

Many case studies from:

Sun

Generic industry uses. Testimonials from pharmaceutical, academic and meteriological organisations using Sun products.