The field of high performance computing is developing at an extremely rapid pace. Massively parallel computers offering orders of magnitude increase in performance are under development by all the major computer vendors.
Many sites now have production facilities that include massively parallel hardware.
This will have a broad effect on all areas of basic chemical science at academic research institutions and chemical, petroleum and pharmaceutical industries in the U.S., as well as chemical waste and environmental remediation processes. 1. current work in chemistry on parallel computers, with a special emphasis on massively parallel computers, 2. The main conclusion of the report is that a drastic acceleration in the present rate of progress is required for the chemistry community to be positioned to exploit fully the emerging class of Teraflop computers, even allowing for the significant work to date by the community in developing software for parallel architectures.