New initiatives scale up supercomputing

To calculate the movements of a mere 600 atoms in an explosion-produced mixture of

Visualization of computed interactions among hydrogen (small green balls), fluorine (large green balls), and oxygen atoms (orange) at high temperatures. LLNL

hydrogen fluoride and water vapor for 1 trillionth of a second, scientists have

had to tie up the most powerful supercomputer available for about 15 days.