Goddard Space Flight Center seeks to expand knowledge of the Earth and its environment, the solar system, and the universe through observations from space. High-performance computing interprets observational data both by processing them into understandable forms and by simulating observed and unobserved phenomena

	Beowulf System Software The latest system software works to implement a Beowulf aware environment that presents a single system image to t he user. No longer simply a collection of computers, a Beowulf is a computing system with a collection of processing resources.
Download Tiff (6.0)	Journeys through Earth and Space Why are the Rocky Mountains so far inland? How do we preserve the changing Amazon rain forest? When will the sun fling parts of itself towards Earth? NASA is tackling questions like these inside supercomputers. Here, billions of calculations per second recreate the universe mathem atically. Supercomputers can process observations into a motion picture. Or, they can solve equations that describe realities seen and unseen . To understand and predict nature through computation, NASA started the Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) Project. It is a unit of the agency's High Performance Computing and Communications Program.
Additional Goddard Space Flight Center Information: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov Point of Contact: Jarrett Cohen Goddard Space Flight Center jarrett.cohen@gsfc.nasa.gov 301-286-2744