HIGH-PERFORMANCE SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING BY A PARALLEL CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT

This paper describes CAMEL, a parallel environment for designing scien tific applications based on the cellular automata mathematical model. CAMEL is an interactive environment designed to support the developmen t of high performance applications in science and engineering. It offe rs the computing power of a highly parallel computer, hiding the archi tecture issues from a user. The system can be used both as a tool to m odel dynamic complex phenomena and as a computational model for parall el processing. By CAMEL a user might write programs to describe the ac tions of thousands of simple active agents, then observe the global co mplex evolution that arises from all the local interactions. The paper presents the programming environment and a significant application in the area of soil decontamination.