PERSPECTIVES OF COLLABORATIVE SUPERCOMPUTING AND NETWORKING IN EUROPEAN AEROSPACE RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY

For some years European aerospace industry and research pursue the ide a of an 'EASNET'-a European Aeronautical Supercomputing Network. Withi n this context, the project RACE 2031 PAGEIN 'Pilot Applications in a Gigabit European Integrated Network' collected a major part of Europea n aerospace research, some manufacturers and two universities. In the following paper on industry oriented activities the benefits of the ne w network based concepts and working modes are evaluated with new indu strial partners. PAGEIN's application environment comprises elements s uch as supercomputers of different architectures, simulations in compu tational fluid dynamics (CFD), scientific visualization and cooperativ e working scenarios including voice and video-to be demonstrated in a high-speed network environment. In the following the content of multip le presentations given during the PAGEIN session of the HPCN'94 confer ence are combined (see [1-6]). Also an update is given on the state of the project.