In The Netherlands, the Foundation HPCN funds projects and activities which have an industrial focus with money that stems from the Minstery of Economic affairs. Late 1998, the Foundation has issued a tender to disseminate the results of HPCN technology projects, especially into new industrial application areas. Out of the 26 submitted, nine dissemination projects were approved. They each get a maximum of 200.000 euro additional funding. The approved dissemination projects cover a wide range of applications, including stock analysis, medical applications and systems.
Partners are universities, research institutes, industry and government agencies.
We will describe a few examples of the projects. There will be computational models of the AEX and ING stock, and a daily estimate of the AEX that will be available online. Technology used includes traditional numerical simulation and genetic algorithms. Virtual Reality on Demand Virtual Reality on Demand will bring VR into the living room. Powered by supercomputers applications will use cable or ADSL network connection to feed WebTV clients.