This document discusses how advances in high performance computing and cyberinfrastructure are benefiting life sciences research. It describes how computational techniques like molecular dynamics simulations require massive parallel processing power. Technologies like multi-core CPUs and GPU computing are making these simulations more affordable and accessible. The document also outlines collaborations between research institutions that use grid computing resources and share data through the Open Science Grid. This allows researchers to perform computationally intensive analyses and modeling across distributed systems.