Examples are numerous, ranging from global change research to combustion to informatics.
It is incumbent on DOE to be aware of the performance of new or beta systems from high performance computing vendors that will determine the performance of future production-class offerings. It is equally important that DOE work with vendors in finding solutions that will fulfill DOE's computational requirements. A 16 node system is also available for development purposes. The application areas involved in our initial evaluations include Bioinformatics Climate Modeling Crash Simulations here . However, neither the IBM nor the Compaq is consistently faster for larger numbers of processors.