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2017 / Digitalization in Research
BASF pushes digitalization in research worldwide. In the context of the enormous opportunities that digitalization offers along the entire value chain research and development play a key role.
The increased use of digital technologies in research and development comprises a new supercomputer located at the Ludwigshafen site. With a computing power of 1.75 petaflops (1 petaflop equals one quadrillion floating point operations per second), the new computer enables processing of a greater number and more complex simulations and modeling in shorter periods of time.

Chemist Dr Fangfang Chu and molecular simulation expert Dr Eduard Schreiner discuss the computer simulation of a microencapsulation.