In it the ASC software, used in the development of turbines, is parallelized . Adjacent to the conference, there was a small exhibition. Primeur was also there and showed its possibilities as an HPCN information node. Not so well known is Hitex automation engineering from Karlsruhe which offered a product that opens new horizons in parallel and distributed computing. Communication hardware that plugs into the PCI-bus, adds a communication processor and four communication links to each PC or workstation.
Synchronisation primitives are integrated - fast barrier synchronisation.
The system is developed at University of Karlsruhe and is distributed by Hitex. In these events you often can find new and interesting products from innovative SMEs that are unknown or discover new features of better known products.