News & Highlights
"Apollo Zone" Digital Image Mosaic and Digital Elevation Model Released
12.13.2011 – NASA Ames' Intelligent Robotics Group has released high-resolution maps covering 18% of the lunar surface—the 3D map processing was performed using NASA's Pleiades supercomputer. Read More
NASA Exhibit Activities at the 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
11.30.2011 – The NASA booth (#1637) will showcase a wide variety of science presentations and cutting-edge, interactive science, technology, and data demonstrations. This year's program will be held Tuesday, December 6 through Friday, December 9. Download program (PDF-966 KB)
NASA Science, Technology Featured at Supercomputing Conference
11.08.2011 – NASA will highlight the vital role of supercomputing in the search for Earth-size planets, understanding the causes of space weather, improving aircraft performance, designing next-generation spacecraft, and much more at the 24th annual Supercomputing 2011 (SC11) conference. NASA@SC11 Website
NASA Selects Next-Generation SGI Platform for Technology Upgrade
11.08.2011 – NASA has selected the next-generation SGI® ICE high performance computing platform to extend the computational capability of the Pleiades supercomputer, operated by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames Research Center. Read More
NASA Ames Inks Lustre Support Deal with Whamcloud
10.21.2011 – Whamcloud, Inc., has announced a Lustre support contract with the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center, to provide better operational continuity for NAS's high-performance computing environment. Read More
Pleiades Supercomputer Enables Largest Cosmological Simulation
09.29.2011 – Thanks to NASA's powerful Pleiades supercomputer, scientists have been able to generate the largest and most realistic cosmological simulations of the evolving universe to date. Read More
Black Holes May Illuminate Universe's Dark Side
09.19.2011 – Researchers at Princeton and New York University have simulated the resulting effects of stars colliding with black holes. Using calculations run on the Pleiades supercomputer, NAS visualization experts created animations of the collisions. Read More
The Impact of Stratospheric Ozone Changes on Downward Wave Coupling in the Southern Hemisphere
09.07.2011 – Using supercomputing resources at the NAS facility, scientists have published a study that reveals a new mechanism wherein stratospheric ozone changes can affect the tropospheric circulation. Read More
First Glimpse into Birth of the Milky Way
08.25.2011 – Astrophysicists from the University of Zurich and the University of California at Santa Cruz have completed the world's first realistic simulation of the formation of our home galaxy. The new results were calculated on supercomputers at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center and the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility. Read More
New Scientific Visualization Capability for Astrophysics Research
08.19.11 – Data analysis and visualization experts in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division have developed a new software capability for visualizing simulations of cosmological structure formation. Read More
Black Hole Collision May Have Set Off Fireworks in the Milky Way
07.27.11 – Smash-up may have produced some of the highest energy radiation in the universe. Supporting simulations ran on NASA's Pleiades and Columbia supercomputers. Read More
NAS Division Engineers Lead IPv6 Protocol Testing for NASA
07.05.11 – Network and system engineers at NAS successfully participated in the global-scale trial of the next-generation Internet Protocol during World IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011. Read More
NAS Produces Animations of Dark Matter for Planetarium Shows
06.23.11 – NAS visualization expert Chris Henze has created amazing animations of dark matter in Earth's galactic neighborhood that will be featured in planetarium shows offering science and education information for the public. Read More
NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer Ranks 7th in the World
06.20.11 – NASA today announced its largest supercomputer climbed to 7th place on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful, high-performance computers. Read More
NAS Collaborates with DOE and Industry on Large-Scale InfiniBand Environments
06.20.11 – The NAS Division is teaming with the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Obsidian Strategics to assess new software engineered for networks with multiple subnets in complex topologies. Read More
A Dark Matter for Astrophysics Research
05.31.11 – Projects like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey have provided a wealth of cosmological data. Using NASA's Pleiades supercomputer, researchers have simulated the region of the universe observed by Sloan. Read More
New User Website Now Open
05.25.11 – A new High-End Computing Capability (HECC) website is available help NASA's science and engineering users quickly get all the information needed to efficiently run their computational jobs at the NAS facility. Read More
High-Fidelity Simulation of Landing Gear Noise
04.25.11 – Scientist Mehdi Khorrami teams up with the NAS Division's Pat Moran to explain the intricate challenges of simulating and visualizing aircraft landing gear noise to improve the sonic environment. Their feature story appears in the Spring 2011 issue of HPC Source. Read More
NAS and NCCS Moving to a Common Standard Billing Unit May 1, 2011
04.21.11 – The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility and the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) are moving to a common Standard Billing Unit (SBU) for allocating and tracking computing time usage. Read More
Innovation that Matters
04.06.11 – Silicon Valley's local KRON4 Best of the Bay TV series featured NASA mission work run on the Pleiades supercomputer, as part of an 8-minute segment, "Innovation That Matters." Watch Video
NASA Extends Contract for Supercomputing Support Services
03.30.11 – NASA will exercise the 3rd one-year option on a contract with Computer Sciences Corp., to provide supercomputing support services for the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division at Ames Research Center. Read more
ESMD, SMD, and SOMD/NESC Time Requests Due March 20
02.18.11 – The Exploration Systems Mission Directorate (ESMD), Science Mission Directorate (SMD), and Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD)/NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC) will select from requests submitted to the e-Books online system by March 20 for 1-year allocation awards beginning May 1. Read More
Donovan Mathias Receives NASA Quality and Safety Award
02.10.11 – NAS Division aerospace engineer Donovan Mathias has received the 2010 QASAR award for his innovative approach to risk assessment, which improved the agency's ability to evaluate launch risks for the Ares 1 rocket. Read more
NAS Scientists Publish Book on Approaches to Real-World CFD
01.10.11 – A new book, "Computation of Viscous Incompressible Flows," by NAS Division scientists Dochan Kwak and Cetin Kiris, gives practical approaches to applying computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to real-world problems related to viscous incompressible flows. The book is part of the Scientific Computation series by Springer. Read more
