+ NASA Home + Ames Home + Sitemap + Staff Directory +Home COLUMBIA SUPERCOMPUTER + Scientific Projects + News 2004 SCIENCE NEWS 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. + Read More 11.01.04 - NAS Supercomputer Improves Estimates of Ocean Climate NAS researchers have teamed with other scientists to dramatically accelerate ocean analysis. + Read More 10.28.04 - NASA Model Tracks 2004 Hurricane Season The finite-volume General Circulation Model (fvGCM) running on NASA's new Columbia system is producing valuable weather predictions to improve hurricane forecasts. + Read More 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. + Read More 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. + Read More 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. + Read More 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. + Read More 03.16.04 - New Parallel Source Code Dr. Graham Fletcher, NAS computational chemistry group, recently completed a parallel code for computing two-electron repulsion integrals. + Read More 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. + Read More 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. + Read More 01.06.04 - Understanding the Lasing Mechanism of a Nanolaser NASA Ames scientists Alex Maslov and Cun-Zheng Ning have made significant progress toward understanding the lasing mechanism of a nanolaser. + Read More ARCHIVE Visit our Science News Archive. + 2006 + 2005 + 2004 Visit our News Archive. + 2005 + 2004 + 2003 + Feedback + Site Help + NASA Privacy Statement, Disclaimer, and Accessibility Certification Editor: Jill Dunbar Webmaster: Ryan Spaulding NASA Official: Rupak Biswas + Contact NAS Last Updated: January 31, 2007