News 2010
NASA Satellite Data Addresses Needs of California Growers
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 about supercomputing support for California crops.
Science, Not Glory, is Top Priority
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 the interview with Bill Thigpen, NAS Division branch chief.
Supercomputing Conference Highlights NASA Earth
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 the interview with Bill Thigpen, NAS Division branch chief.
10th Symposium on Overset Composite Grids
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.
NASA Awards Contract for Improvements to Supercomputing Facility
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.
Best Hope for Saving Arctic Sea Ice is Cutting Soot Emissions
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.
Automated Flow Analysis Tool Enhances File Transfer
The NAS Network team has implemented a flow analysis tool that automatically identifies issues to improve remote file transfer performance.
Supercomputer Reproduces Cyclone's Birth
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.
NASA Supercomputer Doubles Capability, Increases Efficiency
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.
Visualizations of Typhoon Morakot Help Scientists Improve Weather Simulation
Scientists are exploring detailed views of a devastating typhoon using concurrent visualization technology developed in the NAS Division.
New MiniHUD Features Help Users Find Systems Info Faster
NAS has added a number of helpful features to its web-based systems monitoring tool, "MiniHUD," to help save valuable user time.
Researchers Study "Memory" Materials Using Pleiades
Researchers are giving the Pleiades supercomputer a workout while studying remarkable shape memory alloys for high-temperature applications.
Read more about memory materials simulations on the Pleiades supercoomputer.
'Live' Integration of Pleiades Rack Saves 2 Million Hours
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.
Extensive USM3D Code Optimization Yields Significant Performance Improvement
The NAS Division's application performance group completed an extensive effort to optimize the USM3D code for calculating flows over complex geometries.
Concurrent Visualization to the Web - An Early Demonstration
The NAS Division's Visualization team demonstrated a new "CV2Web" capability at a recent Earth science project meeting, and at the SC09 supercomputing conference.
