Who is using parallel computing?

Science and Engineering field:
Parallel computing has been considered to be 'the high end of computing' and has been used to model difficult problems in many areas of science and engineering:

• Atmosphere, Earth, Environment
• Physics- applied, nuclear, particle, condensed matter, high pressure, fusion, photonics
• Bioscience, Biotechnology, Genetics
• Chemistry, Molecular Sciences
• Geology, Seismology
• Mechanical Engineering- from prosthetic to spacecraft
• Electrical Engineering, Circuit Design, Microelectrics
• Computer science, Mathematics
• Defense, Weapons                             

               

Industrial and Commercial field:
Commercial application provide and equal or greater driving force in the development of faster computers. These applications require the processing of large amounts of data in sophisticated ways. For example:

• Databases, data mining
• Oil exploration
• Web search engines, web based business services
• Medical imaging and diagnosis
• Pharmaceutical design
• Financial and economic modeling
• Management of national and multi-national corporations
• Advanced graphics and virtual reality, particularly in the entertainment industry
• Networked video and multi-media technologies
• Collaborative work environments