HPCN in the new Millennium

Bristol, 03 December 98 Early December 60+ experts on high-performance computing and networking, mainly from Europe gathered in Bristol UK to discuss "HPCN in the new Millennium" at this years RCI European Member Management meeting. The conference being hosted by the British Aerospace Sowerby Research Centre focused on engineering in general and aerospace in particular. Users from main European companies and centres met representatives from nearly all HPC companies currently active. The most important trend noticed, is the revival, or at least the possibility of a revival, for parallel vector machines (PVP) especially for industrial engineering applications that was mentioned by several speakers. Being able to deliver near peak performance on industrial codes that do not parallelize well in general, PVPs are the only systems capable of delivering the necessary performance.

Check out the articles of this special issue for more details and references:

Europe can take the lead again in supercomputing - vectors can be the answer

In 2004 only Tflop/s machines will make it to the TOP500 list

HPCN in Europe - A Critical Assessment

MPP under attack from clusters

European aerospace research goes SX-5

Data, data, metadata

My Cray C90 or Jedda system needs to be replaced - but by what?

Get physical - Distributed HPCN only works when you know your data

Supercomputer centres need to redefine themselves

RCI is a member-based international consortium of leading-edge users and progressive vendors of high performance computing and communications (HPCC) for commercial and technical applications. Each year RCI holds a European Management meeting. For more information on the RCI check in at the company's web site.

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