The current state of the art can be summarized very simply with the conclusion of the 2010 SciDAC report: "New, scalable, high-performance computational tools are essential" [EXA10].
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The goal of the ExaViz project is to design advanced interactive visualization and analysis tools for massive data sets and computation results in the advent of exascale computing by deploying a modular and parallel software infrastructure. We specifically target scientific applications for manipulating and exploring simulations of complex biological objects or materials architectures at the nanoscopic scale.
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The economic implications of the bioinformatics sector were evaluated in 2005 by Business Communications Company [BCC05]. Rapid growth is forecast in the global bioinformatics market, with a value of approximately 3 billion euros in 2010 (see Figure below), and average annual growth of almost 16%.
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While the massive increase in computational power has made it possible to simulate large-scale molecular phenomena routinely producing huge and complex data sets and computation results, the ability of human users to deal with them has been trailing behind.
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