C&C Research Laboratories
Rathausallee 10
D-53757 St. Augustin
Germany
(now NEC Laboratories Europe)
In addition to CCRLE's collaborative research on parallel processing, algorithms and applications, NEC installed a 128 processor Cenju-3 at the GMD's HPC-Laboratory, which makes it available to the wider research community. In the summer of 1998, this Cenju-3 machine was supplemented by a 64 processor Cenju-4. These machines, together with an in-house 32 Processor PentiumPro-based PC-cluster will be made available to the project partners.
The laboratory has research staff with extensive experience in the development of parallel solvers (from basic iterative algorithms to full applications) and of software systems (it is responsible for the message-passing programming interface on NEC systems). Furthermore, underpinning their role in SimBio, they have existing collaborations with MPI Leipzig (relating to Finite Element solver and meshing development) and with ESI (notably within the ESPRIT LTR project, DRAMA, which is developing a library for dynamic load-balancing of Finite Element applications). In addition to the DRAMA project, the Laboratory has previously contributed to the ESPRIT projects CISPAR and HPF+ and is currently involved in the ESPRIT project SEP-Tools.
Contact Point: Dr. Guy Lonsdale