Press Room
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Press Releases and Announcements
- November 13, 2018
- NASA Missions to Benefit from New Cloud Computing Services
NASA-funded scientific and engineering projects will get a boost from a new cloud computing service that expands the agency’s range of high-performance computing service offerings. Through a secure, managed cloud environment approach, the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility and the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) will provide supported access to resources at commercial cloud providers.
- November 12, 2018
- NASA Receives Two HPCwire Awards
NASA teams and partners were honored with two HPCwire Reader’s Choice Awards this year for the astronaut Twin Study and the Spaceborne computer. NASA’s High-End Computing Program Manager Tsengdar Lee and Director of Exploration Technology at NASA Ames Rupak Biswas accepted the awards, presented by HPCwire President Tom Tabor.
- November 12, 2018
- NASA’s Electra Supercomputer Rises to 12th Place in the U.S. on the TOP500 List
Recently expanded, NASA’s first modular supercomputer has moved to 12th place in the ranking of the most powerful computers in the United States, and is 33rd worldwide on the November 2018 TOP500 list.
- November 8, 2018
- SC 30th Anniversary Perennials 1988–2018
At SC18, NASA is being recognized as one of just eleven “perennial” organizations that have exhibited at each SC conference since its inception in 1988.
- November 6, 2018
- Google and NASA Tackle Quantum Supremacy
NASA and Google are collaborating to explore the use of gate-mode quantum processors and new approaches to solving complex computing challenges.
During SC18, Eleanor Rieffel, who leads the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) at Ames Research Center, will present An Exciting Year in Quantum Computing Research at NASA in the NASA Hyperwall Theater (booth #2609).
- November 5, 2018
- NASA Brings its Science and Supercomputing Advances to Annual Conference
From designing rocket launch pad components and safer rotorcraft to improving flood and drought forecasts to modeling the formation of planetary disks, NASA will highlight supercomputing advances at SC18, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov. 12 to 15 in Dallas.
Supercomputers play a critical role in hundreds of projects supporting NASA’s missions to explore the solar system and beyond. Whether it’s doing scientific research in low-Earth orbit; protecting and improving life on Earth; developing technologies for safe, efficient, and environmentally sustainable air transportation; or gaining new knowledge about our universe, supercomputing provides NASA with significant research propelling exploration.
