Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing: Best Global Practices offers a global overview of high-performance computing (HPC) for industrial applications, along with a discussion of software challenges, business models, access models (e.g., cloud computing), public-private partnerships, simulation and modeling, visualization, big data analysis, and governmental and industrial influence. Featuring the contributions of leading experts from 11 different countries, this authoritative book: Provides a brief history of the development of the supercomputer Describes the supercomputing environments of various government entities in terms of policy and service models Includes a case study section that addresses more subtle and technical aspects of industrial supercomputing Shows how access to supercomputing matters, and how supercomputing can be used to solve large-scale and complex science and engineering problems Emphasizes the need for collaboration between companies, political organizations, government agencies, and entire nations Industrial Applications of High-Performance Computing: Best Global Practices supplies computer engineers and researchers with a state-of-the-art supercomputing reference. This book also keeps policymakers and industrial decision-makers informed about the economic impact of these powerful technological investments.

This book provides the connection between the growing body of literature on sustainability and the topics of energy and ICT. It aims to show how stakeholders active in this area need to play their part ensuring that the ICT-sector evolves towards a sector that can lead through greening by IT and also shows that it can green its own IT as well. This is the first book that integrates two seemingly incompatible approaches to sustainability: efficiency and effectiveness. The book builds on the efficiency initiatives already taken by industry, but it is not a how-to-do-it manual. It offers insight in state of the art approaches to green IT and greening by IT. Attention to important stakeholders outside the sector, e.g. policy makers and the field of education, makes this book comprehensive. A more encompassing view on ICT and sustainability is offered to the reader and, as such, managers in higher education, educators, CIOs, policymakers and regulators are inspired to integrate their efforts and to contribute to a transition of one of the most important and prominent sectors in our global economy.

Cloud computing gives users much freedom on where they host their computation and storage. However the CO2 emission of a job depends on the location and the energy efficiency of the data centers where it is run. We developed a decision framework that determines to move computation with accompanying data from a local to a greener remote data center for lower CO2 emissions. The model underlying the framework accounts for the energy consumption at the local and remote sites, as well as of networks among them. We showed that the type of network connecting the two sites has a significant impact on the total CO2 emission. Furthermore, the task’s complexity is a factor in deciding when and where to move computation.

Physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, engineering, economics, psychology; simulation models are used in just about any imaginable scientific field. Simulations have become invaluable for the testing of new scientific theories, the design and development of new products, and for the education and training of young professionals. Recent advances in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have allowed researchers to perform simulations of increasing size, resolution and complexity. One of the major challenges is the interpretation of the data that is generated by these models to effectively derive knowledge. Interactive exploration environments that combine simulation, visualization and intuitive interaction methods can help in this knowledge discovery process.

This paper presents an overview of the Synapses Project, funded under the EU Health Telematics Framework IV Programme. Synapses sets out to solve problems of sharing data between autonomous information systems, by providing generic and open means to combine healthcare records or dossiers consistently, simply, comprehensibly and securely, whether the data passes within a single healthcare institution or between institutions. The approach to be taken in Synapses is to build as far as possible on existing results in both technology and standards. The fundamental enabling technologies for Synapses are open distributed computing, object orientation, browsing, information filtering, multimedia, security mediation and telecommunications. The project plans to bring them together, apply them to healthcare, and produce demonstrations validating the approach. The result will be in the public domain in the form of a set of specifications and guidelines.

In this paper it is stated that developing a graphical user interface in an HIS is not an isolated matter. Realisation of a GUI boils down to paying attention to a chain of at least 5 links: the UI from a conceptual point of view, the GUI-building tools, the hardware platform, datacommunication facilities and integration in the HIS.