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2004 NEWS AND HIGHLIGHTS
12.08.04 - NASA Research a Hit at SC2004
Exciting new research and technology from five NASA centers drew crowds at SC2004, the 16th annual supercomputing conference held in Pittsburgh, PA, November 6-12, 2004.
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11.01.04 - Simulations Help Analyze, Prepare for Solar Events
NAS and Stanford scientists are collaborating to create three-dimensional simulations of the entire sun's outer regions.
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11.01.04 - NAS Supercomputer Improves Estimates of Ocean Climate
NAS researchers have teamed with other scientists to dramatically accelerate ocean analysis.
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10.28.04 - NASA Model Tracks 2004 Hurricane Season
Throughout the 2004 hurricane season, the finite-volume General Circulation Model (fvGCM) running on NASA's new Columbia system, has been cranking out valuable real-time numerical weather prediction (NWP) targeted at improving hurricane track and intensity forecasts.
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10.26.04 - NASA's Columbia Supercomputer Tops Charts
NASA's 10,240-processor Columbia supercomputer has produced a sustained performance of 42.7 teraflops on 16 of the 20 installed nodes, achieving an 88 percent efficiency rating - ranking it as the fastest known supercomputer in the world today. This large supercomputer of twenty SGI Altix 512-processor systems is located at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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10.05.04 - Routing Protocol Tested During Planetary Exploration Field Activities
NAS networking staff supported the Desert Research and Technology Studies (Desert RATS) field exercise and the Mars Analog Research and Technology Experiment.
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09.22.04 - William Chan Wins Ames Honor Award for Chimera Grid Tools
Dr. William Chan was awarded the Commercialization/Tech Transfer Award for his work on a software package used for solving complex flow problems.
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08.25.04 - Networking Group Enables VoIP Call from International Space
The NAS networking group provided IP telephone equipment, firewall reconfiguration, and wide-area networking from the orbiting International Space Station to scientists in the Arctic.
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08.25.04 - Computer Simulations Assess Columbia Cooling System
A high-fidelity simulation of the air flow in the main computer room housing the Columbia system was performed by members of the Applications Branch in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division.
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08.10.04 - POP Model Ported to Columbia, Scales to 512 Processors
The Project Columbia applications team has ported and performed initial optimization on the Parallel Ocean Program (POP) model, on 512 processors of the Columbia system.
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08.02.04 - Initial Columbia Results Promising
NASA's new Columbia system has already produced results that foretell breakthrough scientific achievements even before the system is completed.
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07.27.04 - Scientist Receives NASA Honor
NAS scientist Guru P. Guruswamy received a Turning Goals into Reality 2004 award for numerical simulations.
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07.20.04 - NAS Scientist Presents Return to Flight Work
Scientist Stuart Rogers presented a summary of work done by the NAS Application Branch for the shuttle Return To Flight program to the Space Shuttle Program Management Council.
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06.23.04 - 10,240-processor Supercomputer Approved
Funding for the 10,240-processor SGI Altix supercomputer has been approved by Congress.
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06.08.04 - Ground Truthing Team Receives Turning Goals into Reality Award
NAS networking team members receive a Turning Goals into Reality (TGIR) 2004 award for their work in a Ground Truthing experiment.
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05.04.04 - Cart3D Plays Increased Role in Homeland Security
The simulation package Cart3D (developed jointly between Ames and New York University) is playing an increased role in homeland security.
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04.27.04 - New Cray X1 System Arrives at NAS
A new Cray X1 system arrived at the NAS Facility on April 20. This new system incorporates the best features of Cray Inc.'s previous vector and massively parallel processing systems.
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03.10.04 - Parallelization Tools Produce Dramatic Speedup
A code used to study aspects of planet formation and accretion of gas onto the central star, was improved dramatically using an Ames-developed optimization tool.
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02.17.04 - NAS Scientific Consultant Improves CFD Code Performance
NAS scientific consultant Sherry Chang obtained a speedup of more than four times on a code used to simulate supersonic combustion ramjet engines.
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01.28.04 - NAS Supports Aura Spacecraft Checkout
The NAS Divisions networking group recently supported the successful pre-launch checkout of the Aura spacecraft sensor array.
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