Modern science is different from the science of the past. The truly revolutionary scientific discoveries of the future will involve complex interplay between scientists from different disciplines, scientific tools of incredible power and scope, revolutionary research infrastructure and work environments, and management practices that deliver outstanding science for each taxpayer dollar.

The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) builds on a strong tradition of working closely with computer vendors to bring new high-end machines into productive use as world-class scientific computing resources. Other critical components are a massive storage and high-speed networking infrastructure linked to visualization capabilities and analysis techniques that help researchers derive a better understanding of their data, regardless of its nature. Computing power is key to scientific leadership in a number of fields which will provide solutions to many of our most pressing national challenges.

The Computer Science and Mathematics Division (CSM) is ORNL's premier source of basic and applied research in high-performance computing, applied mathematics, and intelligent systems. Basic and applied research programs are focused on computational sciences, intelligent systems, and information technologies. In addition, the Complex Systems group conducts basic and applied research ranging from cooperating robots to laser and quantum communications, including design and analysis of man-machine interfaces.