ABSTRACT
From the birth in the 1970s to the present, HPC in Finland has been to a large extent an academic business. e rst industrial HPC experiments in Finland were done in the 1980s in collaboration with universities and governmental R&D institutes. e rst simulation was a vibration analysis of a full paper machine in 1986 for Valmet. For a long time, paper and pulp was the leading industry in Finland, and Valmet was one of the biggest companies in that eld at the time.
