✍ Scribed by B.L. Buzbee; H.J. Raveché
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A conference on the Forefronts of Large-Scale Computational Problems (FF84) was held at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Maryland, during June 25-27, 1984. The conference was organized on the laypothesis that large-scale computation will play an increasingly important role in science and industry, and that the spectrum of applications of large-scale computation will grow rapidly. Sponsorship was obtained through a consortium of industrial, academic, and government organizations, and the conference steering committee was chaired by Dr. David Wehrly of IBM.
In attendance were more than 400 engineers, scientists and others interested in current applications, new approaches and future trends in large-scale computation. One distinctive feature of the audience was the mix of researchers from academe and industry, hardware manufacturers, computer laboratory directors and managers of R&D. Emerging computational methods and requirements which are held in common by a wide range of research activities were also featured prominently in FF84. The breadth of applications discussed by speakers from industrial laboratories provided persuasive evidence that large-scale computation is being realized as a powerful, economic approach to seemingly intractable problems.
The application areas covered in the program, organized by Buzbee of Los Alamos and Ravech6 of the National Bureau of Standards, included medical imaging, materials science, pharmacology, biotechnology, physics, chemical synthesis, structural analysis, economics, fluid mechanics and movies. Recent advances obtained from large-scale computation in such diverse topics as voltage characteristics in semiconductors devices, bone reconstruction in surgery, action of drug molecules at receptor sites, interaction of DNA with water, global economic modeling and testing laws of nuclear physics were illustrated. The presentations revealed that exciting breakthroughs are possible in these areas if sufficient computing capability is forthcoming. Providing this new capability will require sizeable advances in state-of-the-art computing technology.
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