The mega advances that have defined computational processing developments over the past several years have enabled scientists to simulate extremely large, time-varying datasets in a matter of hours, versus the days and weeks that were required in years past. Today researchers are resolving models of real-world phenomena ranging from the Earth's climate and oceanic activity to accelerator-physics dynamics by running simulations in parallel on clusters of high-bandwidth supercomputers and PCs. Because of these capabilities, as well as significant algorithmic advances, the simulation models being crunched are able to achieve an unprecedented level of detail resolution.
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