1. Introduction
Charlotte BECQUART is a professor at the École nationale supérieure de chimie de Lille, metallurgy, physics and materials engineering laboratory (UMR 8517).
Michel PEREZ is a lecturer at the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, Materials, Engineering and Science Laboratory (UMR 5510).
Over the last 70 years, which have seen an extraordinary development in computing tools, computer power has increased by a factor of 10
15
. Since the birth of what might be called the first computer: the Zuse 1 in 1938, the number of decimal operations per second (Flops) has increased by a factor of 1,000 every 15 years! (figure
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