This access raises the possibility that a country could use supercomputers outside its borders for nuclear weapons research.

Computer simulations have replaced weapons tests, using linked supercomputers capable of performing 1.6 trillion operations a second.

More recently, France has used supercomputers to simulate and study nuclear explosions.

They are suggesting a far more ambitious plan to allow researchers to use supercomputers through an extremely high-speed network.

Some scientists there are using supercomputers to model how new weapons components would behave if incorporated into real bombs.

Designers envision using supercomputers to calculate the flow of air over the plane's surface, among other things.

Physical scientists are no longer the only academicians to use supercomputers.

This you accomplished with a personal laptop computer after experts at a dozen European universities using supercomputers failed.

But now climatologists using supercomputers can run their models over and over again, slightly tweaking the initial conditions each time.

Together with international collaborators, his team has used supercomputers to create the first virtual organ, the virtual heart.