High-End Computing Capability
Computing power to answer NASA's complex science and engineering questions
High-End Computing Capability Project
The High-End Computing Capability (HECC) Project provides world-class high-end computing, storage, and associated services to enable scientists and engineers supporting NASA missions to broadly and productively employ large-scale modeling, simulation, and analysis to achieve successful mission outcomes.
Mission Statement
To accelerate and enhance NASA's mission of space exploration, scientific discovery, and aeronautics research by continually ensuring optimal use of the most productive high-end computing environment in the world.
Key Technologies
HECC conducts work in four major technical areas:
- Supercomputing Systems: Provides computational power, mass storage, and a user-friendly runtime environment through continuous development and deployment of management tools, IT security, and systems engineering.
- Application Performance and User Productivity: Facilitates advances in science and engineering for NASA programs by enhancing user productivity and code performance on high-end computing applications of interest.
- Data Analysis and Visualization: Creates functional data analysis and visualization software to enhance engineering decision support and scientific discovery by incorporating advanced visualization technologies and displays.
- Networking: Provides end-to-end high-performance networking to meet the massive modeling and simulation data distribution and access requirements of geographically dispersed users.
At the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility, the primary supercomputing center for the Agency, HECC provides users with an integrated computing environment including both the computational resources and services supporting efficient use of the systems. Services provided include high-speed networking, data storage, scientific visualization, code porting and optimization, and 24x7 user support.
The High-End Computing Program within the Earth Science Division of NASA's Science Mission Directorate oversees the HECC Project for NASA's Strategic Capabilities Assets Program.
User Quick Links
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