Fields

This site has documentation for these fields:

	Description
Bioinformatics	information handling in biology
Climate research	application of computer science methods to study the Earth's climate
Computational chemistry	application of computer science methods to solve chemical problems
Computational electromagnetics	application of computer science methods to solve and model electromagnetic fields
Computational fluid dynamics	using numerical methods to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows
Computational materials science	applying the properties of matter to various areas of science and engineering
Computational science	using computers to analyze and solve scientific problems
GPU computing	use of graphics processing units (GPU or simply "graphics cards") in scientific computation
Grid computing	combines computers from multiple administrative domains
HPC training	offering training and education to the SNIC communities in HPC related matters.
Molecular dynamics	Newtonian motion simulation in systems with hundreds to millions of particles
Neuroinformatics	organization of neuroscience data
Parallel programming	programming with multiple threads or processes
Performance optimisation	improving the computational efficiency of an application
Performance tuning	optimisation of simulation applications with respect to an optimal use of hardware features.
Solid mechanics	application of computer science methods to solve continuum solid mechanics problems
Structural biology	structural and functional analysis of proteins and their biomolecular complexes
Visualisation	software for graphical representation of data

See also

• Research areas - List of research areas that have documentation on this site.
• Category:Field - Category page for fields.