Supercomputers are used for highly calculation-intensive tasks such as:

• Modeling swine flu
• Recreating the Big Bang
• Folding Proteins
• Understanding earthquakes
• Mapping the blood stream
• Testing nuclear weapons
• Forecasting hurricanes
• Predicting climate change
• Building brains
• Quantum Chromodynamics
• Astrophysics and molecular dynamics
• Earth Simulator
• Quantum physics
• polymers, and crystals
• biological macromolecules
• Research into nuclear fusion
• Simulation of airplanes in wind tunnels
• Superconductivity
• Design of pharmaceutical drugs
• Human genome
• Computational ocean sciences

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