High-performance computing has evolved into an extremely powerful tool to address a wide variety of problems in modeling and simulation. The resolution of increasingly diverse time and length scales is becoming possible with rapid advancement in hardware and software capabilities, which in many cases, provide the enabling technology for new knowledge

The application of supercomputing to numerical intensive problems brings several new issues that do not appear in conventional computing. New algorithms and codes are required in order to exploit effectively the use of the novel computer architectures, as programs suitable for conventional computers are likely to achieve improvement of performance when run on high- performance computers.

The field of high-performance computing is continuously changing. Although there are still improvements being made in the hardware, it is evident that the future is in massively parallel computing. Therefore, engineers and scientists need to parallelize their numerical computer codes to be able to take advantage of these changes. Often a more natural mathematical algorithm founded on physical principles can lead to a better parallel computing formulation.

The workshop aimed at bringing together scientists, professional users and developers working in the following fields:

• Aerodynamics
• Seismic Data Processing
• Atmosphere-Ocean, Climate Modeling
• System Design, Parallel Processing
• Algorithms
• Applications (Medicine, Structural Mechanics, Bioinformatics)
  

The workshop was of interest to scientists, researches and practitioners in academia, industry and government involved in the application of high performance computing.