Science via supercomputers

Computers and science have gone together like white on rice, and BusinessWeek has a story about the growing use of supercomputers to calculate breakthrough scientific discoveries. Those in the know call this phenom names like "ultrascale computing", "holistic simulation" and "planned serendipity", or you can just call it a buddy computer that'lll do your lab work for you. Scientists can use supercomputers to create such advanced simulations and a multitude of calculations that an experiment that would take say 5 years and cost millions of dollars the traditional lab coat way, could be done in mere days for a few thousand dollars via supercomputer. Researchers say that computer simulation experiments will eventually take over all traditional ones and companies in Japan and the US are following suit.