Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science

Scientific American Library Series #43

by William J. Kaufmann III, Larry L. Smarr

The development of the supercomputer has given scientists an awesome new capability: the power to virtually re-create the physical world on the computer screen, with a stunning degree of precision and sophistication. Everything from weather systems to biochemical interactions to car crashes to air pollution to high speed subatomic particle collisions can now be simulated, manipulated, and observed at the scientist's will.

Genres: Science

238 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 1992