Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing

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Chapter 25

Conclusions

Synergy between Science

and Industry with High-

Performance Computing

Anwar Osseyran and Merle Giles

25.1 INTRODUCTION

We have shown in this book how in the past decades, high-performance

computing (HPC) has widely proven to play a crucial role in technology

innovation and scientic discovery in almost all areas of science and

industry. Although national defense programs were the initial drivers

of investments in supercomputing, science and engineering increasingly

adopted computational methods to support discovery and technological

innovation.

CONTENTS

25.1 Introduction 347

25.2 From Defense to Open Science 348

25.3 From Open Science to Virtual Product Development 348

25.4 Industry Needs Science and Vice Versa 348

25.5 Factories of the Future with HPC 349

25.6 Using the Power of Big Data 350

25.7 HPC Use Case Studies 351

25.8 Application Soware is Key in HPC 352

25.9 HPC Across the Globe 353

25.10 Toward the Blue Ocean with HPC 354

348 ◾ Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing

25.2 FROM DEFENSE TO OPEN SCIENCE

e rapid development of semiconductor technology led to an exponential

increase in computational capabilities and oered scientists and engineers

an alternative to experimentation that was capable of complex exploration

outside the laboratory. In the early 1980s, only a quarter of the world’s

HPC capacity was used for military purposes. Remaining uses included

open research, physics and engineering, oil and gas exploration, and

nuclear research. Investments in supercomputing technologies quickly

became associated with scientic and technological competitiveness, and

governments and universities became the biggest customers of the super-

computing suppliers by the end of last century. Nationally funded super-

computing centers chose to associate with universities, which played a

pivotal role in advancing science and supporting industry in technological

innovation. Scalable HPC applications (such as the NASA’s NASTRAN)

were used by industry researchers across the globe.

25.3 FROM OPEN SCIENCE TO VIRTUAL

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

In more recent times, the global nancial crisis made it clear to govern-

ments and academia that funding for e-infrastructure and services can

only be sustained if there is an economic return on these huge national

investments. In this book, we show that HPC has fostered signicant

advances in science and engineering and that the deployment and use of

advanced modeling and simulation through HPC is central to improved

industrial products and services. Partnerships between science and indus-

try will become even more valuable in the modern digital age, during

which HPC capabilities will make it possible to conceive, develop, and test

entire products and assemblies in a virtual world. Petascale and exascale

simulation capabilities, combined with Big Data analytics will make prod-

ucts more competitive in silico before physical prototyping and product

deployment.

25.4 INDUSTRY NEEDS SCIENCE AND VICE VERSA

Advancements in multidisciplinary science and digital technologies ben-

et society directly by helping industry decrease time-to-market, product

development costs, and material reuse. Simultaneously, industry benets

multiple domains of science by demanding increased realism and capabil-

ity and by investing in multidisciplinary science, thus stimulating tech-

nology innovation. Synergy between science and industry is therefore