I was lucky enough to write software for government supercomputers and work with government scientists. From these experiences, I've come to the realization tha

I was lucky enough to write software for government supercomputers and work with government scientists. From these experiences, I've come to the realization that "science has turned into data management" is completely the wrong conclusion. In 99% of scientific supercomputing studies, if you do not know what you are looking for (or at least have a very good guess) before you start looking, then you will not find anything in your data -- you only have time to code and wait for a few analyses. Unfortunately, the systems that scientists study with supercomputing are often beyond our understanding. Even with the supercomputers, we can not form good hypotheses and therefore we learn very little.