CCP12: High Performance Computing in Engineering

CCP12的科学职责是为工程界使用高性能计算提供核心支持。在1994年转向大规模并行计算导致了四个工程联盟的成功建立，这些联盟都活跃在Cray T3D上。自成立以来，所有财团都继续蓬勃发展，并扩大其成员。CCP12的作用和职权范围现在要广泛得多，除了向财团和学术研究人员提供直接支持外，CCP12还参与其演示软件的持续开发，并确定具有强大潜力的战略研究主题，以建立新的工程财团。该工作计划已与CCP 12主席和指导小组达成一致，我们的目标是继续这项工作，并扩大其核心支持，使新的工程活动能够出现并发展成为强大的社区，可以利用英国今天和明天的旗舰设施。许多高科技行业越来越依赖先进的工程模拟来降低成本，降低风险，增强功能，保持国际领先能力。因此，计算工程是一个关键的支撑能力，英国在工业和工业方面都有显着的优势。英国通过继续发展先进的模拟能力来保持和加强其目前的地位显然至关重要。CCP12的愿景和目标是确保英国研究人员能够使用最佳数值方法和技术应对计算工程的重大挑战，并加速英国计算工程对国家和国际高性能计算设施的影响。因此，第十二届气候变化专门委员会参与了一些前瞻性的千万亿次（通过PRACE和美国的相关活动，如INCITE）和亿亿次倡议（EESI）。开发这种规模的软件将有许多积极的好处，使学术研究能够准备并保持在国际领先的水平，并保持强大的工业竞争力。CCP 12和工程联盟相信，千万亿次和亿次计算将为科学和技术进步带来前所未有的机遇。为了确保计算工程研究基地保持在先进模拟的最前沿，CCP12提出了一项雄心勃勃的前瞻性开发，支持和扩展活动计划。

The scientific remit of CCP12 is to provide core support to the engineering community in the use of High Performance Computing. The move to massively parallel computing in 1994 led to the successful establishment of four engineering consortia that were active on the Cray T3D. Since their formation, all of the consortia have continued to flourish and expand their membership. CCP12's role and remit is now much broader and, in addition to the direct support offered to consortia and academic researchers, CCP12 is involved in the on-going development of its demonstrator software and identifying strategic research themes with strong potential for building new engineering consortia. The work programme is agreed with the CCP12 Chairman and Steering Panel and we aim to continue this work and expand its core support to enable new engineering activities to emerge and develop into strong communities that can exploit the UK's flagship facilities of today and tomorrow.Numerous high-technology industries increasingly rely on advanced engineering simulation to reduce cost, reduce risk, enhance functionality and maintain an internationally leading capability. Computational engineering is therefore a key underpinning capability where the UK has notable strengths both in academe and industry. It is clearly vital that the UK retains and enhances its current position through the continued development of advanced simulation capabilities. CCP12's vision and ambition is to ensure that UK researchers are able to tackle computational engineering grand challenges using the best available numerical methods and techniques and to accelerate the impact of UK computational engineering on national and international High Performance Computing facilities. CCP12 is therefore involved in a number of forward-looking petascale (through PRACE and related activities in the USA e.g. INCITE) and exascale initiatives (EESI). Developing software at this scale will have many positive benefits that will enable academic research to prepare and stay at a level that is internationally leading and also maintain a strong industrial competitiveness. CCP12 and the engineering consortia are convinced that petascale and exascale computing will bring unprecedented opportunities for scientific and technological advancement. To ensure the computational engineering research base remains at the forefront of advanced simulation CCP12 has proposed an ambitious and forward-looking programme of development, support and expanded activities.