Distributed computing makes enormous computational problems affordable to solve.
For revenge, Archimedes devised a fiendish computational problem that involved truly immense numbers.
The computational power of the Altix systems has significantly accelerated research progress by delivering results in much less time.
In the UK and Europe, computational aerodynamics now plays an important industrial role and it has significantly influenced the design of modern aircraft.
Although some were designed specifically to meet the needs of computational chemistry applications, they remain generally applicable.