Main fields

HPC is now essential in many academic and industrial fields:
- environment and climate for meteorological forecasting and assessment of natural risks such as cyclones and tsunamis;
- automobiles for modelling crash tests, gas-engine combustion in order to reduce fuel consumption and air pollution, and even for designing new aerodynamic vehicules ;
- aeronautic and space in order to reduce design and validation times of certain components;
- chemistry, medicine and biology in developing highly targeted drugs;
- material physics for qualifying new concepts or measuring their strength;
- energy for optimising oil prospecting and designing the power stations of tomorrow;
- finance in assessing risks on certain complex products;
- multimedia for creating 3-D sequences (relief), etc.