Europort-1: Porting industrial codes to parallel architectures

Abstract

Europort is a European initiative (within the ESPRIT III programme) the goal of which is to demonstrate the benefit of parallel computer technology for industry by porting a vast range of real industrial applications to parallel platforms. This porting action will serve as an exemplar for industry to increase the awareness of parallel high performance computing (HPC) within industry at large and demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of parallel systems. Europort as a whole is subdivided into two projects, Europort-1 and Europort-2. This paper gives an overview of the Europort-1 project, namely, those activities dealing with fluid dynamics and structural mechanics. Europort-1 is partially funded by the European Commission under contract EP 8421.