In 2005, a semi-truck caught the nation’s attention when it crashed and caught fire, igniting 35,000 pounds of explosives it was carrying through Utah’s Spanish Fork Canyon. To shed light on the mechanism that caused the chain reaction and help prevent future occurrences, Professor Martin Berzins and his research team from the University of Utah turned to the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility’s 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q system, Mira. Their research was the subject of a feature article by Jim Collins on the ALCF website.