New supercomputers brakes through petaflop speed barrier. The new computers will provide science new opportuties that weren’t possible before, with its number crunching skills, said an article on Wired.com.
According to the article, breaking the petaflop barrier won’t just allow faster computations. The computers will move scientific simulations farther than just the two main branches of science, theory and experimentation, and into the foreground.
The article continues by stating: “Instead of just hypotheses being tested with experiments and observations, large-scale extrapolation and prediction of things we can't observe or that would be impractical for an experiment, will become central to many scientific endeavors.”
Past supercomputers have enabled scientists to test theories, design experiments and predict outcomes as never before. However, the new petaflop-scale machine is poised to bring about major qualitative changes in the way science is done.
Link:
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/11/supercomputers.html
Monica Sullivan
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