“In the late 1990s, all supercomputing machines looked alike,” according to University of Utah chemistry professor Thomas E. Cheatham III. In general, they had similar structures—clusters of processors that communicate with fast networks. Now, that’s all about to change as a new generation of ultrafast supercomputers looms on the horizon. As a result, computational chemistry is facing the need to radically retool its methods.
The Looming Petascale
April 13, 2009