Introduction

Center for Scientific Computing, or simply CSC, is a Finnish service center specializing in scientific computing and data communications. CSC provides modeling, computing and information services for universities, research institutes and industry.

CSC has published the following report focusing on the achievements of computational science in Finland. We have selected illustrative examples from, e.g., physics, chemistry, biosciences, economics and astronomy. Of course, this report can only show a small sample of the results: CSC has over 1500 users, who are involved in over 700 active projects.

We hope this report encourages the readers to "think big". We are also compiling a report on the Finnish grand challenges in scientific computing. We hope that the next supercomputer system - to be installed in 2000 or 2001 - will make it possible to meet at least some of these challenges.

We hope that you enjoy this interdisciplinary review of scientific computing. Please send your comments about this report to the e-mail address: Juha.Haataja at csc.fi

Copyright

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