Scientific targets range from the inner ear and the nervous system to the stars.
The target computers include the new IBM SP teraflops system being installed at SDSC and a new Sun HPC 10000 server with 64 processors and 64 GB of shared memory. The projects have been selected with arrival of these systems in mind. The idea, according to Boisseau, is to enable new science on relatively short timescales and to discover and develop general solutions that benefit not only these projects, but also specific disciplinary communities and users of high-performance computing generally. The teams pursue the goals of capability computing by moving important codes to more modern computational architectures. The seven new collaborations and the collaborating principal investigators are listed below.