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Over the past decade high performance computing has demonstrated the ability to model and predict accurately a wide range of physical properties and phenomena. Many of these have had an important impact in contributing to wealth creation and improving the quality of life through enabling the development of new products and processes with greater efficacy, efficiency or reduced harmful side effects, and in contributing to our ability to understand and describe the world around us. Some highlights have already been presented in various reports 1, 2 and the U.K. community is kept up to date by publications such as HPCProfile 3 and HPCNews 4.
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Allan, R.J., Guest, M.F., Simpson, A.D., Henty, D.S., Nicole, D.A. (1999). Introduction. In: Allan, R.J., Guest, M.F., Simpson, A.D., Henty, D.S., Nicole, D.A. (eds) High-Performance Computing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4873-7_1
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