The continued growth of HPC in academia is driven by the use of high performance computing by governmental and corporate entities. Academic research is not limited to specific fields and often compels continued research by corporations. Computational sciences are broad in scope and encompass many disciplines.

Academics have no bounds and research is conducted in diverse fields such as:

• aerodynamics
• health care
• quantum mechanics
• molecular modeling
• climatology
• food sciences
• polymers
• cryptology
• exploration of both terrestrial and extraterrestrial phenomenon