Hardware developments I

Joint report by STFC FR-IDF, and ICHEC on: (a) Report on hardware developments that will affect the scientific areas of interest to E-CAM and detailed feedback to the project software developers (STFC); (b) discussion of project software needs with hardware and software vendors, completion of survey of what is already available for particular hardware platforms (FR-IDF); and, detailed output from direct face-to-face session between the project end-users, developers and hardware vendors (ICHEC).