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