High Performance Computing: A tool to foster European competitiveness

In Science and Industry, the development of numerical simulation, which allows to virtually reproduce complex phenomena, has led to design supercomputers. Nowadays, the most powerful machines can perform trillions of operations per second... High Performance Computing (HPC) represents now a crucial technology to a growing range of academic and industrial fields: Environment and Climate, Automotive, Aeronautics and Space, Chemistry, Medicine, Materials Science, Energy, Multimedia... In consequence, a policy in HPC is strategic in science, industry and also for public policy.