Pioneering work in numerical relativity applications by the NCSA Relativity Group and other teams participating in t he Grand Challenge Alliance will help computer designers achieve this goal. However, the development of teraflop computing will depend on further advances in microprocessor-based technologies and comp uter networks . In the future , the researchers' questions should not be restricted by current technology, only by the limits of the theory. Codes must be built that are compatible with different machines and which can tap the ir raw power to the hilt. Developing advanced relativity codes will take collaboration between the best minds in numerical relativity and computer science.
Progress also demands new tools and techniques to visualize the res ulting avalanche of data.