The installation started and on August 14 at 10 p.m. selected applications ran successfully. They measured 1.6 to 2x the performance compared to the V2500. NAS parallel benchmark class C showed a factor of 1.25 to 2.01. Frank Baetke, Hewlett-Packard, chaired this session and the following panel discussion. The panelists presented their different views, a university of research lab has other possibilities to work with innovative computing elements and structures like clusters of workstations.
Industrial users have the pressure of availability, cost and application performance.
This leads to different HPC architectures for specific problems like electromagnetic compatibility or Crash simulation. The users gave about eight talks on their experiences. The last day users and HP discussed programming and data management paradigms.