"In the wake of rapid advancements in conventional computing, supercomputing has gained tremendous importance world-wide. Many technologically developed countries across the world including China, USA, UK, France and even India are significantly investing in supercomputing to develop capabilities in some of the latest scientific fields such as genomics, alternative energy and defence."
Engr Muhammad Asghar, Rector National University of Sciences Technology said this at a symposium organised by Research Centre for Modelling and Simulation at the university campus here on Wednesday.
He urged the faculty and the management to make full use of the best available resources to cater for the research-related needs of the students. "Scientific simulation has become an important part of the research repertoire, supplementing and in some cases replacing experimentation. It employs techniques of applied mathematics and computer science for developing problem-solving methodologies and robust tools, which are the building-blocks of scientific solutions and engineering problems of very high complexity," he maintained.
In his keynote presentation, Dr Tauseef ur Rehman, Associate Professor CAE, Rislapur, said that computing had been witnessing massive transformation comparable to the kind that started with the invention of the transistor in the 19th century.-PR