Today's machines aren't yet able to simulate all types of materials. But a broad array of researchers think steady progress in technology has now made supercomputers powerful and available enough to make the task worth starting. "The scaling of computing is really making this possible," says Gerbrand Ceder, a materials scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Richard Hennig, a computational materials scientist at Cornell University, agrees. "The field of computational materials science is ready to take off," Hennig says.
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Posted on: Friday, 23 March 2012 4:03 AM
Author: Robert F. Service
Subject: [News Focus] Computational Science: Materials Scientists Look to a Data-Intensive Future
| Supercomputing power now makes it possible to compute the properties of thousands of crystalline materials in a flash and is expected to guide experimentalists where to search for the next best things. |
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