HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND GEOGRAPHY - DEVELOPMENTS, ISSUES, AND CASE-STUDIES

In this paper we outline some of the results that were obtained by the application of a Gray T3D parallel supercomputer to human geography p roblems. We emphasise the fundamental importance of high-performance c omputing (HPC) as a future relevant paradigm for doing geography. We o ffer an introduction to recent developments and illustrate how new com putational intelligence technologies can start to be used to make use of opportunities created by data riches from geographic information sy stems, artificial intelligence tools, and HPC in geography.