09/16/03 -- Mars Flyer Debuts on the Hyperwall
As NASA’s twin Mars Exploration Rovers undergo a remarkable journey to the Red Planet, aerospace experts at Ames Research Center are using the “hyperwall,” a unique visualization tool developed in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division, to study the aerodynamics of a future Mars spacecraft.

09/09/03 -- Earth Science Data will be Used to Manage Indian Reservation
A proposal to help the Lakota tribe manage land use issues by means of NASA’s Information Power Grid (IPG) resources and Earth science data has been awarded funding through a NASA cooperative agreement. The proposal calls for a joint collaboration with NASA’s IPG team, Sinte Gleska University (a tribal university on the Rosebud reservation in South Dakota), Earth Sat, Global Science & Technology, Inc., and the Earth Resources Observing Systems (EROS) Data Center, a field center for the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Mapping Division.

07/09/03 -- NASA Grid Technology Shines at GGF8
The NAS Division’s reputation for spearheading grid technologies was reinforced at the recent Global Grid Forum 8 (GGF8) in Seattle, when a team of NASA’s Information Power Grid (IPG) scientists hosted workshops and showcased IPG technologies. Several NAS presentations resulted in proposals for collaboration, requests for software, and invitations for increased participation in research and working groups.

Spring 2003

05/28/03 -- HiMAP Used to Predict Abrupt Wing Stall on F-18 Aircraft
Award-winning NASA software HiMAP (High-fidelity Multidisciplinary Analysis Process) has been successfully applied to a joint project with the U.S. Navy to understand certain phenomena involved in Abrupt Wing Stall (AWS) on its F-18 E/F Aircraft. The project, "Computational Prediction of Abrupt Wing Stall (AWS) on the F-18 E/F Aircraft," was sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and monitored by the Naval Air Warfare Center in Maryland.

04/29/03 -- New Report Studies NASA Open Source Options
A new NAS Technical Report describing the importance of Open Source Software (OSS) to NASA has been published and is available online. The report, "Developing An Open Source Option for NASA Software," (NAS Technical Report NAS-03-009) describes how OSS is consistent with NASA's charter and in line with the NASA mission. 

Winter 2003

03/24/03 -- Kao Named to IEEE Editorial Post
NAS Division scientist David Kao has been named an associate editor of Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), a quarterly journal of the IEEE. The journal is designed to inform readers on the state of the art of the specialized field of scientific visualization.

02/25/03 -- Grid Workshop Signifies Progress
NASA’s Information Power Grid (IPG) community gathered February 4-5 to discuss recent accomplishments and goals for the IPG’s future. A common theme of many of presentations delivered at the workshop was data accessibility, or Data Grids.

02/18/03 -- New 2003 Technical Reports Online
Researchers in the NAS Division have published three new technical reports, available online:

"Performance Evaluation of Remote Memory Access (RMA) Programming on Shared Memory Parallel Computers"

"NAS Parallel Benchmarks I/O Version 2.4"

"Implementation of Preconditioned Dual-Time Procedures in OVERFLOW"

For a complete list of reports (2002-1989), visit the NAS Technical Reports Archive.

01/27/03 -- NAS Researcher Scores Funding for Nanolaser Work
NAS Division researcher Cun-Zheng Ning, and Hou-Tee Ng of NASA Ames Research Center’s Nanotechnology Branch, were among the winners of the Ames Director’s Discretionary Fund (DDF) for fiscal year 2003. The grant provides the financial support needed to begin conducting proposed research on “Patterned Nanolaser Arrays as Building Blocks for Nano-Photonics Systems.” The proposed nano-photonic devices will consume considerably less power, perform better, and achieve revolutionary functional densities -- all necessary to withstand extreme conditions in space.