The SUPRENUM idea, the project, and the system has generally been described and presented in several papers. There is also a great deal of more detailed technical papers describing SUPRENUM as a whole or certain elements of it.
Here we want to give only a very general and rough survey on the essentials of the SUPRENUM system in order to enable the reader to categorize and understand the more specific SUPRENUM papers in this special issue.
Most of the supercomputer applications today are based on grid or grid-like data structures. Grid applications play also an essential role in the SUPRENUM development: in the top-down design of the architecture, in the programming environment, in the parallelization concept of algorithms, and, of course, in the application software development itself. We therefore place some emphasis on this grid orientation in our presentation. 相似文献