When it comes to Supercomputing, historically, the top dog on the circuit has been IBM’s BlueGene/L with its 478+ teraflop (trillions of floating point ops/sec) horsepower, at the ready for solving some of the world’s most critical problems and calculations.  Applications, like those being researched at the US Department of Energy, take enormous resources.  As is the case with the DOE’s research in simulation of how nuclear materials will age over time, predicting little things like how safe US nuclear