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High-End Computing at NASA 2007-2008

NASA 2008 HEC Report
This new report features science and engineering highlights from across NASA's mission directorates and updates about the HEC Program's facilities and services.
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NEWS & PRESS RELEASES

11.18.09 - NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest
NASA's Pleiades supercomputer at Ames Research Center has garnered the number 6 spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.
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11.04.09 - NASA Showcases 'Green' Missions at SC09 Conference
Five NASA centers join forces this month to showcase "green" science, engineering, and technology achievements at SC09, the leading international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis.
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05.20.09 - HEC Wide-Area Networking Transitioning to NISN May 27, 2009
NASA-internal wide-area networking services for the High-End Computing (HEC) Program are transitioning to the NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN). HEC's new NISN services include a direct 10 gigabit-per-second network pathway between its two facilities.
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NAS TECHNICAL REPORTS

Scientific Application-Based Performance Comparison of SGI Altix 4700, IBM Power5+, and SGI ICE 8200 Supercomputers
This paper evaluates performance of a dual-core SGI Altix 4700, a quad-core SGI Altix ICE 8200, and a dual-core IBM POWER5+ system. To measure performance, NAS computer scientists used micro-benchmarks from the High Performance Computing Challenge, NAS Parallel Benchmarks, and four real-world applications—three from computational fluid dynamics and one from climate modeling.
Authored by: Subhash Saini, Dale Talcott, Dennis Jespersen, Jahed Djomehri, Haoqiang Jin, and Rupak Biswas
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