You may or may not have read the "About Us" section and wondered what Computational Physics, or more generally, what Computational Science actually is. You wouldn't be the first! To the untrained ear, Computational Science sure sounds a lot like Computer Science. Even Google is a bit hard of hearing.

Computational Science is the scientific approach for the 21st century! With computers more powerful than ever and the internet more awesome than ever, it's natural that we should use such resources to further scientific research.

With one of these new fangled computing devices all sorts of formally forbidden "voodoo research" are suddenly fair game. Weather prediction, bring it on! Computer aided drug design, why not! Protein folding, I'd compute that in my sleep! Collisions of galaxies, at worst a cool DVD! Scientists can finally gain insight into phenomena of epic proportions which is unobtainable by experiment (damn funding!) and phenomena which is too messy to understand theoretically (damn brain!). The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and I both agree that computat. sci. is here to stay:

Computation is now regarded as an equal and indispensable partner, along with theory and experiment, in the advance of scientific knowledge and engineering practice.

A true computational wizard understands principles of efficient algorithm design, software development, scientific theory, mathematics, visualization, and error analysis. Definitely not a wizard to be reckoned with.

For more information you should read some Computational Science Wikipedia articles and embrace the age of computation that lies ahead of us. Also Mike Lazaridis, if you're reading this right now, I could really use a Perimeter Institute for Computational Physics down the road from my house, k thx.