Volume 13 Number 2 Winter 1996-97 International Conference on Parallel Computing October 3-4, 1996 On October 3rd and 4th, the Supercomputer Institute, in conjunction with IBM Corporation, sponsored an International Conference on Parallel Computing, held at the Supercomputer Institute. One hundred nineteen registrants from five countries gathered for 17 plenary lectures and nine poster papers on a wide variety of topics in parallel computing. There was also a conference reception and a conference dinner, which featured lively discussion. The exchange of ideas crossed all the traditional boundaries, with academic, industrial, and government labs represented as well as multiple vendors. The talks can be grouped roughly into four areas: fluid dynamics and transport, materials science, physical science, and computer science. Some of the talks are summarized below. Fluid Dynamics and Transport Ulrich Trottenberg of the German National Research Center for Information Technology in St. Augustin, Germany discussed the use of the portable CLIC library for solving the 3-D Navier-Stokes equations. One example calculation involved 6,600,000 cells and was solved at 2.8 Gigaflops on a 129-node IBM SP2. Trottenberg singled out fully dynamic adaptive grid structures as the main challenge to efficient parallel computing. In This Issue: International Conference on Parallel Computing Positron Emission Tomography Workshop on Modeling in Biochemical Engineering Evolutionary Algorithms Workshop Upcoming Workshop on Rational Drug Design Seminar Synopses Research Reports Franz Fiedler of the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research in Karlsruhe, Germany discussed the use of parallel computing (25 processors) for studying the fate of atmospheric pollutants under various weather conditions. One model he discussed contained 63 substances, 158 reactions, and 21 photolysis reactions coupled to the flow. Yoichiro Matsumoto of the University of Tokyo presented a Monte Carlo molecular flow simulation that included the rotational motion of individual N2 molecules. Denis J. Evans of the Australian National University in Canberra described the use of artificial fields to simulate thermal transport boundary conditions. The new formulation has been tested on a Fujitsu AP10000 parallel computer with 128 processors. "ICPC..." article continued

 

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