Applications of High-performance Computing in Engineering

Section 1 Parallel computing: Towards best achievable floating point performance for linear algebra computations on COTS Beowulf clusters; C2AS: An agent-based distributed and parallel processing virtual machine; Application of JavaSpaces to improve iterative reconstruction of SPECT data; A parallel algorithm with time dependent mesh refinement for wave propagation problems; Evaluation and benchmark of high-performance computer platforms for automotive crashworthiness simulation. Section 2 Parallel finite and boundary elements: Viscoelastic beam damping and piezoelectric control of deformations, probabilistic failures and survival times - analytical and massively parallel computational simulations; Time-domain Laplace transform boundary element methods for diffusion problems; Parallel finite element algorithms for the analysis of multiscale plasticity problems; On parallel computing for the general boundary element method; High performance computing for analysis and postprocessing of earthing systems in layered soils. Section 3 Applications in fluid flow: Parallel vorticity formulation for calculating lift and drag on bluff bodies in a free stream; Parallel lattice fluid simulations for transport phenomena in porous media; Large-scale parallel simulation of blood flow coupled with a diseased blood vessel; Computation of the starting flow in a shock tunnel 2D nozzle; Parallelization in two-dimensional direct numerical simulation; Parallelization of a multi-blocked, multi-threaded general CFD code for heat transfer analysis. Section 4 Further applications in computational science: Data classification using KNN-fuzzy method optimized by a genetic algorithm; Solving a rational Eigenvalue problem in fluid-structure interaction. Section 5 Performance and benchmarking: The VAMPIR and PARAVER performance analysis tools applied to a wet chemical etching parallel algorithm; Computer-aided diagnostics, data collection, data warehousing and mining system for handguns; A neural network implementation for data assimilation using MPI; Information systems maintenance; Issues of web-enabled high performance databases. Section 6 Distributed computer systems and networking: High performance multithreaded message passing on a myrinet cluster; pCor: a prototype for resource oriented computing.