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NC State Physicists, Mathematicians to Develop Applications for World's Most Powerful Computers
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Tracey Peake, News Services, (919) 515-6142
Oct. 31, 2007
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A team of researchers from North Carolina State University has received a five-year, $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to create software for the world's most powerful supercomputers.
NC State physicists Dr. Jerry Bernholc and Dr. Wenchang Lu, and mathematician Dr. C. Timothy Kelley, are leading the research team, which also includes scientists from the University of Tennessee.
The grant will be used to develop general-purpose software applications for supercomputers capable of processing a petaflop–or a thousand trillion–operations per second. These computers are used primarily by scientists to run simulations of processes on the nanoscale or molecular level, simulations that may further research in areas ranging from drug delivery systems to alternative energy.
There is really a dearth of software for these computers, and we hope to address that problem," Bernholc says. "These computers give us simulation tools that can lead to advances in every area of scientific endeavor, from engineering to earth sciences."
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