The future of science is going in the direction of "deep" computing for modeling and for very large-scale, data-intense experiments. Biology is going to have to acquire and adopt large-scale computational methods -- prodigious computing capacity on the order of Peda-flops (1,000 Tera-flops). The future of biological experiments will be like semiconductor fab lines. Some areas of science may be left behind. Some schools are investing in supercomputers or similar large computing capabilities in connection with science programs. It is purported that computer modeling of scientific phenomenon is the "future." The requirement for data is increasing astronomically.

- From Tradeline's Academic Science Buildings 2004 Conference