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The oil embargo of the early 1970s stalled cars but began a supercomputing story that continues to this day. The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the state-of-the-art national facility that serves government, industry, and academic users today, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014. The guest editors of this special issue document that history and describe the articles they...