New advances in High Performance Computing and simulation: Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications

Recent developments in research and technological studies have shown that high performance computing (HPC) will lead to advances in several areas of Science, engineering, and technology, permitting the successful completion of more computationally intensive and data-intensive problems such as those in healthcare, biomedical and biosciences, climate and environmental changes, multimedia processing, design and manufacturing of advanced materials, geology, astronomy, chemistry, physics, and even financial systems. The development of the HPC infrastructure has been accelerated by the advances in silicon technology, which permitted the design of complex systems able to incorporate many hardware and software blocks and cores.