This area of our web site contains lots of information about NAS’s mission, history, projects, and collaborators. In case you don’t have the time (or inclination) to read everthing, we’ve provided this brief, fact-filled profile.

Mission:
Develop, demonstrate, and deliver innovative, distributed heterogeneous computing capabilities to enable NASA projects and missions

Skills:
High performance computing and networking; distributed computing; parallel programming tools; nanotechnology and device modeling; applications for high-end computing; computational chemistry

Resources:
SGI 1,024-processor Origin 3000, SGI 512-processor Origin 2000, SGI 256-processor Origin, 32-processor Cray SV1e, SGI and Sun workstations, 600 terabytes online/nearline data storage

NASA Funders:
Computing Information Communication Technologies (CICT) Program, Data Assimilation Office, Consolidated Supercomputing Management Office (CoSMO), Department of Defense Major Shared Resource Centers

Collaborators:
Langley Research Center, Glenn Research Center, the National Science Foundation's NCSA Alliance and National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, the Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program, Stanford University, SGI, and a host of others.

Certification:
ISO 9001 certified