We are presently working in the development of new applications based on the results of this model. Among others, oil spill simulations, design of sub-oceanic wasted waters emissaries, help in the search of shipwrecked persons, sustainable management of fisheries and other environmental applications.
An enhancement of the PTidal results may arise of its application with a continental shelf model which could provide more accurate boundary conditions. This task will start in the following months as part of the research in the sustainable management of fisheries initiative being accomplished.
As soon as current-meter measurements data would be available, further model calibration, employing also tide currents in the comparison to numerical results, will be performed.
A World-Wide-Web graphical interface to the code is being implemented which, in short, will let us make the model available through the Internet to other users, embedded within one of the above mentioned applications.
We expect to enhance the speedup results upgrading the LAN connecting our PC cluster and still beat the performance/price ratio. A specially built ``parallel virtual machine'' composed of PC's CPUs is being designed to give the above described service.