Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, when we think of how computers affect our lives, we probably think of the work we do on our office desktop machines or maybe the Internet surfing we do in our spare time. We do not normally think of the enormous contribution that supercomputers, also called high-performance computers, make to the world around us. These powerful machines are used in the development of pharmaceuticals, in modeling the Earth's climate, and in applications critical to ensuring our national and homeland security. They also help ensure our economic competitiveness. In a recent Subcommittee on Energy hearing, we heard how supercomputers can help companies anticipate how new products will behave in different environments using simulations that are called 'virtual prototyping.' These approaches help companies increase the speed to market for new products. High-performance computers also are central to maintaining U.S. leadership in many scientific fields. Computational science complements theory and experimentation in fields such as plasma physics and fusion, astrophysics, nuclear physics, and genomics. The top computer in the world today, the Earth Simulator, is not in the United States. It is in Japan.”