Book Description

The increasing speed and expanded storage capacity of modern high-performance computers, together with new advanced numerical methods and programming techniques, have greatly improved the ability to solve complex engineering problems. As the power of computers grows, the complexity of the problems which can be solved also increases. The application of high-performance computing for numerically intensive problems brings several new issues that do not appear in standard computing. New algorithms and codes are required in order to effectively exploit the use of these novel computer architectures. This volume comprises the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Applications of High-Performance Computing in Engineering, ASE 95, held in Milan in June 1995. It presents and discusses advances in the application of supercomputing to numerically intensive problems in engineering. The book is divided into eight sections covering: Algorithms for Parallelisation and Vectorisation; Distributed Computer Systems and Networking; Performance and Benchmarking; Vector and Parallel Finite and Boundary Elements; and a series of sections on different applications of high-performance computing, including: Fluid Dynamics; Structural Mechanics; Applied Science; and Visualization.