A Passion for Computation Benefits Every Discipline

摘要

It's no secret that computers are in Lawrence Livermore's blood. That passion for computation was one of the principal factors that brought me to Livermore three years ago to become associate director of Computation. Livermore's research is invariably accomplished with the aid of computers, which include the most powerful supercomputers available. Our reliance on computers to simulate the physical world started at the Laboratory's founding in 1952, and computational excellence is a major reason for our continued success as one of the world's preeminent scientific research institutions.