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IBM AND LLNL SCIENTISTS SHOW SUPERCOMPUTER ADVANCE IN MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT.

Advanced Materials & Composites News, May, 2002

An unprecedented billion-atom calculation has enabled a team of IBM and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists to demonstrate a major advance in using supercomputers to simulate the strength of materials.

Using one of the world's most powerful supercomputers as a computational microscope, the scientists can peer deep inside simulated materials to reveal how they break, as well as what makes them strong or weak, stiff or flexible. Calculating the strength of new materials is a critical issue in creating structures as small as microprocessors, or as large as buildings or airplanes, that will withstand real-world forces.

The scientists' results are also a major step toward using supercomputers to design new materials with customized...

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