High Performance Computing has just crossed the « peta-scale » limit in 2008. It opens new frontiers in several application domains: nano-structures, quantum chemistry, life sciences …
Sixty young scientists from Europe, Japan, and the United States meet at Oak Ridge, 13-15 October, 2008, to share their research expectations, and to build cooperative projects.
See: https://computing.ornl.gov/workshops/symposium08/|en