His experiences show that it is scalable up to 16 nodes although the concept allows for more. Parallel computing is now ready for industrial use. In the end two examples from forging simulation and metal forming were presented. Even these problems show good simulation behaviour. The big problem the panellists saw,was that if the software vendors do not market parallel versions, then parallelism will die.
Industry wants solutions depending on commercially available program packages.
Bad news came from the side of tools such as debuggers and all the parallel environment. Here a lot of work has to be done. Furthermore public relations has to be improved, good news from the parallel scene have to be spread in and out of the community. This third GMD-NEC Workshop at Schloss Birlinghofen took place in a creative atmosphere with a lot of discussion and information and experience exchange. The Fourth is scheduled for September next year.