PANEL DISCUSSION ON CFD AND STRUCTURES APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

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PANEL DISCUSSION ON CFD AND STRUCTURES
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Panelists
• Alex Akkerman, Ford
• E. Thomas Moyer, Naval Surface Warfare Center
• Matt Floros, Army Research Laboratory
• Susan Polsky, Naval Air Weapons Center
• Andrew Johnson, Digital Rocket Science
• Vince Scarafino
• Paul Muzio, City University of New York
• Bob Graybill, USCISI
• Richard Walsh, IDC

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PANEL DISCUSSION ON CFD AND STRUCTURES
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Many of the panel members are now in the process
  of addressing complicated multi-physics problems
  be it for ship, rotorcraft, or fixed wing
  aircraft design. 
• What are the most significant algorithmic issues
  in this area that need to be addressed?

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PANEL DISCUSSION ON CFD AND STRUCTURES
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Most current high performance computers now
  consist of 100s or 1000s of SMP nodes with
  multicore chips. 
• How do current algorithms map to this computer
  paradigm? 
• Does it make your development work easier or
  harder? 
• What kind of HPC architectural improvements are
  needed to efficiently support these algorithms?

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PANEL DISCUSSION ON CFD AND STRUCTURES
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

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• What changes in computer programming models for
  HPC systems would benefit work in this area?