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NASA Supercomputer Helps 'Dig Out' Astronomical Treasures in Kepler Data

03.07.13 – Behind the scenes, NASA's most powerful supercomputer, Pleiades, crunches the Kepler mission data that enables scientists to quickly unearth transit signals and confirm the discovery of new planet candidates. Read More

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NASA's Newest Supercomputer Makes Its Debut

02.22.13 – The Endeavour supercomputer is now in production. Endeavour, a shared-memory SGI UV 2000 system that replaces the legacy Columbia system, will help scientists and engineers solve large, highly complex computational problems for NASA missions. Read More

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Journey to the Limits of Spacetime

02.13.13 – Using 3D simulations created on supercomputers at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and the National Institute for Computational Sciences, researchers are now able to visualize the forces around black holes with much greater detail. Read More

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NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Scheduled to Launch in April

01.25.13 – NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission will use the Pleiades supercomputer to create and analyze 3D models of the sun based on data gathered by the orbiting observatory. Read More

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