This is fascinating. In a previous life, my job was building/running supers at a DOE lab, and while the work done on the machines were quite interesting, the re

This is fascinating. In a previous life, my job was building/running supers at a DOE lab, and while the work done on the machines were quite interesting, the really grandiose projects were all physics related (supernova simulation, liquid salt reactor cooling, jet combustion, etc.) The biological projects were still cool and I'm certain they were important, but they were harder to relate to (ion channel simulation, behavior of water in confined spaces, etc.), mostly biochemistry. This could provide a nice bit of press to the large scale HPC community, which sometimes suffers from its association with DoD and the "other, darker side" of the DOE. (Or other non-US equivalents.)