New tracks for future computational platforms for engineering applications

The purpose of this paper is to address new tracks for the future generation ofcomputational applications in mechanics and related branches. We advocate thatmodern computational tools will have to deal with complex strongly coupled multi-physics multi-scale problems. Moreover, heterogeneous distributed multi-processorssystems are used today for the numerical simulations. We pose here some basicideas for the design of modern computational applications. All the illustrations arebased on finite elements strategies implemented in a pure Java paradigm