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We need to point out that, if the wavelengths of laser radiation are less than the size of typical structures on the optical element, the Fresnel model gives a satisfactory approximation for the diffraction of the wave on a flat optical element If we have to work with super-high resolution e-beam generators when the size of a typical structure on the element is less than the wavelengths, in principle, we need to use the Maxwell equations. Now, the calculation of direct problems of diffraction, using the Maxwell equations, are used only in cases when the element has special symmetry (for example circular symmetry). As a rule, the purpose of this calculation in this case is to define the boundary of the Fresnel model approximation. In common cases, the calculation of the diffraction using the Maxwell equation is an extremely complicated problem, even if we use a super computer. 

Then appeared the time of computers. Quantum chemists developed semi-empirical codes that rapidly evolved into ab-initio complex systems of programs. According to their optimistic or pessimistic views, colleagues have seen this period either as that of semi -quantitative or of semi-qualitative theoretical chemistry. Very recently came the age of super computers, and a generation of quantum chemists have seen their dream come true at last, the quality of the calculation is in harmony with the quality of the concepts. 

Biochemistry and chemistry takes place mostly in solution or in the presence of large quantities of solvent, as in enzymes. As the necessary super-computing becomes available, molecular dynamics must surely be the method of choice for modeling structure and for interpreting biological interactions. Several attempts have been made to test the capability of molecular dynamics to predict the known water structure in crystalline hydrates. In one of these, three amino acid hydrates were used serine monohydrate, arginine dihydrate and homoproline monohydrate. The first two analyses were by neutron diffraction, and in the latter X-ray analysis was chosen because there were four molecules and four waters in the asymmetric unit. The results were partially successful, but the final comments of the authors were "this may imply that methods used currently to extract potential function parameters are insufficient to allow us to handle the molecular-level subtleties that are found in aqueous solutions" (39). 

Numerical calculations were carried out at the Super Computer Laboratory, Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University and the Kyoto University Data Processing Center. This work is partially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Encouragement of Young Scientists (13740395) from Japan Society for the Promotion... 

As pointed out in the Frontiers in Chemical Engineering report [16], Chapter 7, the (super)computer of the future will have enough power to allow ab initio computations that we are learning how to pose to replace laboratory experiments. To perform this analysis step, we need to be able to set up and solve very large scale computations. We might ask how well we can do this and what the problems are. 

The authors would like to express sincere thanks to the staffs of the Computer Center, Institute for Molecular Science, Okazaki National Institute for the use of super-computers. This study was supported by a grant-in-aid for scientific research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan, and by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and also by the 21st Century COE program Nature-Guided Materials Processing" of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. 

Simulation techniques have been used in scientific studies for decades, but only the advent of open source tools, increases in desktop computational power and broad access to commodity super-computers have made these techniques readily available to individual investigators. So, what is "spectral simulation" For the purpose of this chapter we will define it as "The estimation of the results of an... 

In a similar fashion, computer memory and data transfer rates have also increased since 1993. Intel introduced the first ever RAM chip in 1970 with 1024 bits of storage space and a transfer rate of 500 Hz. In 1994, a typical PC had 16 MB of RAM with a transfer rate of 66 MHz. And in 2010, typical PC memory can be up to 64 GB in 8 GB modules with 1033 MHz transfer rate. It is the access to this level of technology today that enables spectral simulation calculations to take place on a single user workstation that would previously have required mainframe or even super-computer performance. 

AFP Performance Benefits. Comparisons between the performance of the Advanced Flexible Processor and other current super computers have been made on the image processing Change Detection Algorithm. The Advanced Flexible Processor has been determined to be approximately 2,000 times faster than a CDC 6600 on the Change Detection Algorithm, and to provide approximately 100 times the capability of the CDC 7600 computer. The Advanced Flexible Processor is found to perform 20 times faster than its predecessor, the Flexible Processor. 

An extension of molecular mechanics, known as molecular dynamics, requires more computer power, but promises to provide more realistic models for molecules in solution. It will undoubtedly become the theoretical method of choice for complex biological systems as super-computing becomes cheaper and more readily available [272, 273]. 

The quantized version of (11.4.8) is the basis for numerical state-of-the-art computations on super-computers. Over the past ten years these computations have evolved into an astonishingly accurate and reliable tool for the interpretation of experimental spectra. An example of the accm-acy that can be achieved routinely nowadays is given by lu et al. (1991). The computations by lu et al., converged ab initio solutions of (11.4.8) with no adjustable parameters, are able to reproduce existing experimental results astonishingly well. 

The Next Generation Super Computing Project (Nanoscience Project), and a Grant-in Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area (Nos. 20036008, 20038007) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan. 

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Cooling super-computers Inertness toward Perfluorocarbons... 

Figure 1 Pileup/ClustalX alignment of the CXC, CC, and C chemokines. The alignment begins at 10 amino acids from the second cysteine, not at the putative initiation site. Alignment performed by Dr Robert Stephens of the Frederick Biomedical Super Computer Group SAIC, Frederick, NCI-FCRDC. 

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