+ NASA Home + Ames Home + Sitemap + Staff Directory +Home COLUMBIA SUPERCOMPUTER + Scientific Projects + News NAS DIVISION PROJECTS Staff members in the NAS Division support four main high-level projects under the sponsorship of the NASA Advanced Simulation Program, in addition to other work critical to NASA missions. The four high-level projects supported by the NAS Division are: Project Columbia The construction of NASA's new 10,240-processor SGI Altix supercomputer has changed the face of high-end computing, increased NASA's computing capability ten-fold and revitalized the agency's high-end computing infrastructure. + Read More Contact: Bill Thigpen, project manager (650) 604-1061 William.W.Thipgen@nasa.gov Scientific Visualization The visualization project plays an invaluable role by providing visualization tools that enhance the understanding of computational simulation and experimental data generated by the high-end computing systems at NAS. + Read More Contact: Chris Henze, project manager (650) 604-3959 Christopher.E.Henze@nasa.gov Applications & Code Porting Development of programming techniques for the large systems at NAS, and porting some of NASA's most important applications to demonstrate high levels of sustained performance is vital to the sustained success of the NAS program. + Read More Contact: Piyush Mehrotra, project manager (650) 604-5126 Piyush.Mehrotra@nasa.gov Networking The Networking project will develop and operate a set of functional network capabilities for wide-area networks and the Columbia supercomputer local area network. + Read More Contact: Kenneth Freeman (650) 604-1263 Kenneth.Freeman-1@nasa.gov Other Key Projects In addition to the above focus projects, the NAS Division does specialized science and engineering work in the following areas: Distributed computing Parallel programming tools Nanotechnology Device modeling and simulation Computational chemistry For more information on these projects, contact the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division office at (650) 604-4502. + Feedback + Site Help + NASA Privacy Statement, Disclaimer, and Accessibility Certification Editor: Jill Dunbar Webmaster: Ryan Spaulding NASA Official: Rupak Biswas + Contact NAS Last Updated: August 8, 2007