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Supercomputing about physical objects

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Scientific and technological advances in the next 5 to 10 years will make it feasible to create an integrated, interactive system for the design, manipulation and analysis of collections of physical objects. These advances will come in computing power through the mechanism of parallel computation, in algorithms for geometry, in problem solving systems to provide very high level user interfaces and in graphics to allow direct visualization of the behavior of the physical objects. In this paper we describe the project Computing about Physical Objects which is to explore the associated technical problems and to build prototypes of such systems. The focus here is upon the role of supercomputers in this area and, especially, their application to solving the partial differential equations that model many physical phenomena.

Research supported in part by Strategic Defense Initiative grant ARO DAA929-83-K-0026.

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E. N. Houstis T. S. Papatheodorou C. D. Polychronopoulos

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Rice, J.R. (1988). Supercomputing about physical objects. In: Houstis, E.N., Papatheodorou, T.S., Polychronopoulos, C.D. (eds) Supercomputing. ICS 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 297. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-18991-2_26

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