By: TOP500 Team

Both the application of high-performance computing in the automotive industry and the challenges of trying to get better performance out of HPC systems will feature at this year’s ISC High Performance Computing conference to be held in Frankfurt, Germany, in July. Both location and date have changed this year – previous conferences have been held most recently in Leipzig and have taken place a month earlier in June.

The opening keynote will review the application of high-performance computing to the automotive industry and, in particular, how Mercedes-Benz makes use of the technology. The talk will be given by Jürgen Kohler, head of NVH CAE and Vehicle Concepts at Daimler AG, who is also chairman of the Prace Industrial Advisory Committee.

In the article Geography helps HPC go green, published on the Scientific Computing World website last month, it ws reported that BMW did all the simulation and computational work for its i-series of energy efficient cars using HPC servers located in Iceland, motivated by a desire for the computation to be energy efficient (and by the low cost of power in Iceland). However, Dr Kohler is expected to discuss Mercedes-Benz’s use of locally placed high-capacity computer clusters in its car development work.

Read the full article on Scientific Computing.