For aircraft manufacturers and airlines this means that inspectors can recognize minor faults in good time so that inspections become more economical. Films only a few atomic layers thick can be deposited on other materials in modern epitaxy facilities. More than 100,000 people per year die of so-called sudden cardiac arrest. This is triggered by malignant disturbances of the cardiac rhythm which threaten a large number of patients particularly after they have survived a heart attack. It thus creates the necessary prerequisites for developments in information technology of present and coming generations.
Supercomputers are at the leading edge of current information technology.
They offer unimaginably great computing power and provide answers to questions which were hardly conceivable a few years ago.