Once the exclusive territory of nuclear weapons designers and code breakers, ultrafast computers are increasingly being used in everyday product design. Procter & Gamble used a supercomputer to study the airflow over its Pringles potato chips to help stop them from fluttering off the company's assembly lines.
John Markoff, "A New Arms Race to Build the World's Mightiest Computer," New York Times, 19 Aug 2005 via Tomalak's
