The Growth of High-Performance Computing in Africa

Much of Africa has limited experimental research facilities in many areas of fundamental and applied sciences. There are, however, cases where government support has made a difference in providing both infrastructure and funding to researchers as well as graduate students to carry out experimental work. This article describes continent-wide initiatives to grow computational sciences and high-performance computing work. These programs are expected to produce African researchers and scholars who will drive the materials science research agenda, thereby directly influencing their own economies.