There, we are administering the world's first major field study of cloud formation and global climate change. We are also developing computer capabilities to handle the flood of information brought in from these monitors. The new administration's interest in alternate motor fuels is reflected both in Argonne research and in our lab fleet, which now includes vehicles powered by methane, ethanol and natural gas. Massively parallel computing capability is key to these initiatives and to other major future growth areas. A big step forward into that future is being accomplished at this moment.
Conventional computers contain a single processor that solves problems one step at a time.
These are problems with broad scientific and economic impact that require unprecedented computational power for solution. We are also in some pretty good industrial and academic company with this consortium. Those advantages, along with the parallel computing expertise that we have developed over many years, are good reasons to expect significant growth in this area. Most of you are aware of the important role that the Intense Pulsed Neutron Source has played as a user facility at Argonne. We are now engaged in a design competition for the creation of an advanced pulsed neutron source, which will provide 75 times more neutrons than the IPNS and top every existing source in the world.