High Performance and Grid Computing Developments and Applications in Condensed Matter Physics

Abstract

This chapter introduces applications of High Performance Computing (HPC), Grid computing, and development of electronic infrastructures in Serbia, in the South Eastern Europe region, and in Europe as a whole. Grid computing represents one of the key enablers of scientific progress in many areas of research. Main HPC and Grid infrastructures, initiatives, projects and programs in Europe, Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and European Grid Initiative (EGI) associations, as well as Academic and Educational Grid Initiative of Serbia (AEGIS) are presented. Further, the chapter describes some of the applications related to the condensed matter physics, developed at the Scientific Computing Laboratory of the Institute of Physics, University of Belgrade.