What+is+Computational+Science?

** What is Computational Science?

Wikipedia states that, "Computational science (or** scientific computing**) is the field of study concerned with constructing [|mathematical models] and numerical solution techniques and using computers to analyze and solve [|scientific], [|social scientific] and [|engineering] problems. In practical use, it is typically the application of [|computer simulation] and other forms of [|computation] to problems in various scientific disciplines."**

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Mostly computer simulations of climate data. The definition of computer simulations is taken from Wikipedia, again. " Computer simulations vary from computer programs that run a few minutes, to network-based groups of computers running for hours, to ongoing simulations that run for days. The scale of events being simulated by computer simulations has far exceeded anything possible (or perhaps even imaginable) using the traditional paper-and-pencil  [|mathematical modeling] : over 10 years ago, a desert-battle simulation, of one force invading another, involved the modeling of 66,239 tanks, trucks and other vehicles on simulated terrain around   [|Kuwait] , using multiple supercomputers in the  [|DoD]  High Performance Computer Modernization Program;  [|[2] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">] a 1-billion-atom model of material deformation  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|(2002)] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">; a 2.64-million-atom model of the complex maker of protein in all organisms, a  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|ribosome] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">, in 2005;  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|[3] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">] and the  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|Blue Brain] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> project at  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|EPFL] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> (Switzerland), began in May 2005, to create the first computer simulation of the entire human brain, right down to the molecular level. <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">[|[4] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">] "=====