Cluster Application Areas/Markets

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High Performance Computing (HPC) and therefore cluster computing touches many areas. IDC expects the annual expenditures in the HPC market to reach $6.3 Billion in 2007. The following is a list of application areas where HPC is used on a daily basis.

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Astrophysical modeling
  • Automobile design
  • Bioinformatics
  • BioInformatics and protein sequence processing
  • Biomechanics
  • Climate modeling
  • Computational chemistry
  • Computational physics
  • Data mining
  • Earth/ocean modeling
  • Earthquake modeling
  • Economic modeling
  • Elastic-plastic deformation
  • Engineering simulation
  • Fluid dynamics
  • Galaxy simulation
  • Genome mapping
  • Geological modeling
  • Global climate modeling
  • Heart simulation
  • High-energy physics
  • Image processing
  • Molecular biology
  • Molecular dynamics
  • Nuclear-weapons simulation
  • Performance modelling
  • Pharmacology
  • Physics modeling
  • Protein folding
  • Rendering
  • Seismic data analysis
  • Sheet metal forming
  • Surgical 3D visualization
  • Transaction processing
  • Transient thermal analysis
  • Vehicle dynamics
  • Visual theory
  • Weather prediction