Perspectives of collaborative supercomputing and networking in European Aerospace research and industry

Abstract For some years European aerospace industry and research pursue the idea of an ‘BASNET’ —a European Aeronautical Supercomputing Network. Within this context, the project RACE 2031 PAGEIN ‘Pilot Applications in a Gigabit European Integrated Network’ collected a major part of European aerospace research, some manufacturers and two universities. In the following paper on industry oriented activities the benefits of the new network based concepts and working modes are evaluated with new industrial partners. PAGEIN's application environment comprises elements such as supercomputers of different architectures, simulations in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), scientific visualization and cooperative working scenarios including voice and video —to be demonstrated in a high-speed network environment. In the following the content of multiple presentations given during the PAGEIN session of the HPCN'94 conference are combined (see [1–6]). Also an update is given on the state of the project.