SimCon has had a valuable association with Liverpool Hope University for many years. One member of SimCon is a principal lecturer at Hope, and another is an associate lecturer.

Recent collaborative work includes:

• The development of an API which will enable users to customise WinFPT, and to create their own reports and analyses.

• Automatic analysis of the use of units and dimensions in users' code.

• Automatic parallelisation of code for conventional high performance systems. Liverpool Hope is installing its own high performance computer, and the tools developed at Hope will also be targeted to the high performance system at Cape Town (CHPC).

• Conversion of code for fine-grain parallelisation, for compilation targetted to FPGA compilers.

Two members of the SimCon team are Honorary Research Associates at the University of Cape Town. We are working in collaboration with members of the Radar Remote Sensing Group, and on projects connected with The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) and the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT).

SimCon has a long-standing and close relationship with IQS Solutions (Pty) Ltd. in Simon's Town, South Africa. IQS and SimCon are currently collaborating on the migration of a major real-time radar control system, and IQS also has an important rôle in the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT) project.

SimCon works with David Flower Ltd. in research in the automatic analysis of physical units and dimensions in Fortran codes. The current activity is to instrument the Fortran code and to track the relationships between units and dimensions at run-time.

SimCon and David Flower Ltd. also work together in QA auditing of codes and migration of code from legacy systems.