News 2011
"Apollo Zone" Digital Image Mosaic and Digital Elevation Model Released
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.
NASA Exhibit Activities at the 2011 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
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.
NASA Science, Technology Featured at Supercomputing Conference
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 Selects Next-Generation SGI Platform for Technology Upgrade
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.
NASA Ames Inks Lustre Support Deal with Whamcloud
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.
Pleiades Supercomputer Enables Largest Cosmological Simulation
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.
Black Holes May Illuminate Universe's Dark Side
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.
The Impact of Stratospheric Ozone Changes on Downward Wave Coupling in the Southern Hemisphere
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.
First Glimpse into Birth of the Milky Way
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.
New Scientific Visualization Capability for Astrophysics Research
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.
NAS Division Engineers Lead IPv6 Protocol Testing for NASA
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.
NAS Produces Animations of Dark Matter for Planetarium Shows
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.
NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer Ranks 7th in the World
NASA today announced its largest supercomputer climbed to 7th place on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful, high-performance computers.
NAS Collaborates with DOE and Industry on Large-Scale InfiniBand Environments
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.
New User Website Now Open
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.
NAS and NCCS Moving to a Common Standard Billing Unit May 1, 2011
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.
NASA Extends Contract for Supercomputing Support Services
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.
Donovan Mathias Receives NASA Quality and Safety Award
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.
NAS Scientists Publish Book on Approaches to Real-World CFD
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.
