High-End Computing Capability
Computing power to answer NASA's complex science and engineering questions
High-End Computing Capability
The High-End Computing Capability (HECC) Portfolio provides world-class high-end computing, storage, and associated services to enable NASA-sponsored scientists and engineers supporting NASA programs to broadly and productively employ large-scale modeling, simulation, and analysis to achieve successful mission outcomes.
Mission
Plan and provision high-end computing systems and services to support NASA's mission needs. Operate and manage these HECC resources for the benefit of agency users, customers, and stakeholders.
Vision
NASA’s HECC resources are relied on as an essential and pervasive partner by the breadth of agency science, engineering, and technology activities, enabling rapid advances in insight and dramatically enhancing mission achievements.
Key Technologies
HECC conducts work in five major technical areas:
- Supercomputing Systems: Provides computational power, data storage, and a user-friendly environment to run jobs, with 24x7x365 help desk assistance.
- Application Optimization: Facilitates advances in science and engineering for NASA programs and projects by enhancing user productivity and code performance on high-end computing applications of interest.
- End-to-End Networking: Provides efficient end-to-end networking to meet the massive modeling and simulation data distribution and access requirements of geographically dispersed users.
- Visualization and Data Analysis: Creates visualization and data analysis software tools to assist engineers and scientists in gaining insight into large, complex datasets by incorporating advanced visualization technologies and displays.
- Data Analytics: Facilitates scientific understanding and sharing of complex datasets using the latest technologies in statistics-based data analytics, machine learning, and deep learning.
- Data Publication and Discovery: Facilitates data publication and discovery of new details in large datasets in order to support users’ collaboration efforts by building and maintaining portals to share domain-specific data within a community.
At the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility, the primary supercomputing center for the agency, HECC provides users with 24x7 support for navigating our integrated computing environment that includes both the computational resources and associated services to easily and efficiently use the systems. HECC can also provide additional customized services and other in-depth services requiring ongoing support.
HECC is part of the High-End Computing Program, which is managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate and receives funding from all mission directorates to serve as an agency-wide resource.
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