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Contents
Foreword, xi
Acknowledgments, xv
Executive Summary, xvii
Contributors, xxiii
Chapter 1 ◾ Introduction and Brief History of
Supercomputing 1
Merle Giles and anwar Osseyran
part i Country Contributions
Chapter 2 ◾ Country Strategic Overview of
Supercomputing 25
steve COnway, Merle Giles, and anwar Osseyran
Chapter 3 ◾ Industrial Applications on
Supercomputing in Finland 37
per Öster, anni JakObssOn, and ari turunen
Chapter 4 ◾ Industrial Applications on
Supercomputing in France 47
Catherine rivière and stéphane requena
Chapter 5 ◾ Industrial Applications on
Supercomputing in Germany 63
MiChael M. resCh and andreas wierse
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Chapter 6 ◾ Industrial Applications on
Supercomputing in Italy 79
sanziO bassini and ClaudiO arlandini
Chapter 7 ◾ Industrial Applications of High-Performance
Computing in Japan 97
MakOtO tsubOkura
Chapter 8 ◾ Industrial Applications of High-Performance
Computing in The Netherlands and Belgium 115
anwar Osseyran, peter MiChielse, serGe bOGaerts, and dane skOw
Chapter 9 ◾ Industrial High-Performance
Computing Activities in Korea 139
sanG Min lee
Chapter 10 ◾ Industrial Applications on
Supercomputing in Spain 153
FranCesC subirada
Chapter 11 ◾ Industrial Use of High-Performance
Computing in the United Kingdom 169
Mark parsOns and FranCis wray
Chapter 12 ◾ u.s. Industrial Supercomputing at NCSA 179
Merle Giles, seid kOriC, and evan burness
Chapter 13 ◾ Industrial Letters of Testimony to the U.S.
National Science Foundation 195
Merle Giles
Chapter 14 ◾ A Livermore Perspective on the Value
of Industrial Use of High-Performance
Computing Resources at Lawrence
Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia
NationalLaboratories 205
JeFFrey p. wOlF and dOna l. CrawFOrd
Contents ◾ ix
part ii Case Studies
Chapter 15 ◾ High-Performance Computing Business
Case in the Petroleum Sector 223
keith Gray
Chapter 16 ◾ Rolls-Royce Corporation: High-Performance
Computing Impact on Industrial Design Cycle 233
tOdd siMOns
Chapter 17 ◾ Porsche: An Industrial Use Case 243
MiChael M. resCh and andreas wierse
Chapter 18 ◾ Industrial Applications’ Journey to
Supercomputing at Renault 247
yves tOurbier and MarC pariente
Chapter 19 ◾ GE Research Industrial Applications’ Journey
to Supercomputing 253
riCk arthur and MasakO yaMada
Chapter 20 ◾ An Italian Twist on an America’s Cup
Sailboat Hull Design 279
raFFaele pOnzini and andrea penza
Chapter 21 ◾ NDEMC Midwest Pilot in the
United States of America 285
Merle Giles and Cynthia MCintyre
Chapter 22 ◾ Geophysical Imaging in High-Performance
Computing Platforms in Spain 301
MauriCiO hanziCh, JOsep de la puente, and
FranCisCO OrtiGOsa
Chapter 23 ◾ High-Performance Computing Methods
at France’s HydrOcean 307
erwan JaCquin
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part iii Industry Developments and Trends
Chapter 24 ◾ A View from International Data
Corporation (IDC): High-Performance
Computing and HPDA 315
steve COnway and ChiraG dekate
Chapter 25 ◾ Conclusions: Synergy between Science and
Industry with High-Performance Computing 347
anwar Osseyran and Merle Giles
INDEX, 357
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