Inmany scientiŽ c and engineering domains, it is common to analyze and simulate complex physical systems using mathematicalmodels.Althoughcomputing resources continue to increase inpower and speed, computer simulation and analysis codes continue togrowincomplexityandremain computationally expensive, limiting their use indesign and optimization. Consequently, many researchers have developed diff...

This paper provides a description of an approach based on our 20-sim modelling and simulation PC software package in combination with various hardware targets with an Analog Devices Inc. DSP board as an instance. The main virtue of this approach is support for a number of (virtually any decent) hardware platforms for, in this case, a price less than a few percent compared to existing market sol...

PCs linked through a network are used for parallel computing. These systems are often called 'Beowulf clusters'. The definition of a 'Beowulf cluster' is very blurred. It is applied to systems which use PCs in a student lab or in a department, typically when they are idle at nighttime, but also to systems of connected PC dedicated to run parallel applications. The common factor is building a pa...