News & Highlights
NASA Satellite Data Addresses Needs of California Growers
12.14.10 – NAS supercomputing resources are supporting work that will provide California growers in the San Joaquin Valley with important information and images about crop growth, irrigation demands, forecasts, and more. Read More
Science, Not Glory, is Top Priority
11.19.10 – Systems and Engineering Branch Chief, Bill Thigpen, underscores NAS' goal to deliver faster, more efficient computing cycles to users versus achieving better Linpack numbers, in an interview with Network World. Read More
Supercomputing Conference Highlights NASA Earth
11.09.10 – NASA will showcase the latest achievements in climate simulation, space exploration, aeronautics engineering, science research and supercomputing technology at the 23rd annual Supercomputing 2010 (SC10) meeting. Read More
10th Symposium on Overset Composite Grids
09.16.10 – The NAS Division is hosting the 2010 Overset Grid Symposium from September 20-23, which bring together mathematicians, scientists, and engineers from around the globe. Read More
NASA Awards Contract for Improvements to Supercomputing Facility
09.09.10 – NASA has selected South Bay, EDC Inc., Chandler, Ariz., to receive a contract to improve the reliability of the power supply for the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center. Read More
Best Hope for Saving Arctic Sea Ice is Cutting Soot Emissions
07.28.10 – The quickest, best way to slow the rapid melting of Arctic sea ice is to reduce soot emissions from the burning of fossil fuel, wood and dung, according to a new modeling study by NAS user Mark Z. Jacobson, a researcher at Stanford University. Read More
Automated Flow Analysis Tool Enhances File Transfer
07.26.10 – The NAS Network team has implemented a flow analysis tool that automatically identifies issues to improve remote file transfer performance. Read More
Supercomputer Reproduces Cyclone's Birth
07.21.10 – NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has helped develop a simulation of tropical cyclone Nargis, which devastated Myanmar in 2008. The result is the first model to replicate the formation of the tropical cyclone five days in advance. Read More
NASA Supercomputer Doubles Capability, Increases Efficiency
06.02.10 – Pleiades, NASA's supercomputing powerhouse, located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., placed sixth on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful, high-performance computers. Read More
Visualizations of Typhoon Morakot Help Scientists Improve Weather Simulation
04.21.10 – Scientists are exploring detailed views of a devastating typhoon using concurrent visualization technology developed in the NAS Division. Read More
New MiniHUD Features Help Users Find Systems Info Faster
03.22.10 – NAS has added a number of helpful features to its web-based systems monitoring tool, "MiniHUD," to help save valuable user time. Read More
Researchers Study "Memory" Materials Using Pleiades
03.03.10 – Researchers are giving the Pleiades supercomputer a workout while studying remarkable shape memory alloys for high-temperature applications. Read More
'Live' Integration of Pleiades Rack Saves 2 Million Hours
02.08.10 – The NAS Division's recent 'live' installation of a new rack on the Pleiades supercomputer has returned 2 million hours of computing time to users. Read More
Extensive USM3D Code Optimization Yields Significant Performance Improvement
01.27.10 – The NAS Division's application performance group completed an extensive effort to optimize the USM3D code for calculating flows over complex geometries. Read More
Concurrent Visualization to the Web - An Early Demonstration
01.14.10 – The NAS Division's Visualization team demonstrated a new "CV2Web" capability at a recent Earth science project meeting, and at the SC09 supercomputing conference. Read More
