SWABI, Aug 15: Workshops on high performance computing and related topics held with the help of scholars and experts in industries will help develop computational mechanics design capabilities to solve the problems facing research and industrial sectors.

This was stated by experts on the concluding day of a five-day workshop on “High Performance Computing” in Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology on Friday.

The workshop was organised by the GIK Institute in collaboration with the University of Illinois, Chicago. Experts in high performance computing provided hands- on training on different topics, including parallel computing issues, Linux operating system environment and beowulf cluster, message passing interface (MPI), open message passing standards, shared memory programming and advanced parallel computing techniques to the participants.

Dr Ashfaq A. Khokhar of the University of Illinois said that it was the beginning and in future such workshops would be organized to train resources from academia, research and industrial organizations.

He said that the GIK Institute could lead Pakistan in the field of high performance computing.

The Rector of GIK Institute, Dr Abdullah Sadiq, said that the workshop was a significant milestone in improving the computational mechanics capabilities. He said there was a dire need to organize such workshops within the country and with the collaboration of partners from developed countries. “We must broaden collaboration and interaction,” he said.