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High-End Computing Program

Delivering high-end computing systems and services to NASA's aeronautics, exploration, science, and space operations missions.

REQUESTING COMPUTING TIME AT NASA

If you are a NASA-sponsored scientist or engineer, computing time is available to you at the High-End Computing (HEC) Program's NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility and NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS).

04.30.09 - Science Mission Directorate Award Emails
Award emails went out April 29 for allocations beginning May 1. Please email support@hec.nasa.gov if you have any questions.


LATEST NEWS

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06.09.09 - Transportation Pollution and Global Warming
Controlling pollution from transportation sources would greatly reduce black carbon and ozone emissions, which affect both climate and also human health. The study included global climate model simulations run at NCCS.
Visualization of modeled surface air temperature changes from 1890 to 2000, from BC-albedo effects
05.25.09 - Particles Multi-Task to Change Climate
Tiny particulate matter in the atmosphere can both warm and cool the climate. Global climate model experiments run on the NCCS Discover supercomputer seek to answer: Which effect is dominant, and will the balance change as the atmosphere warms due to greenhouse gases?
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05.20.09 - HEC Wide-Area Networking Transitioning to NISN May 27, 2009
NASA-internal wide-area networking services for the High-End Computing (HEC) Program are transitioning to the NASA Integrated Services Network (NISN). HEC's new NISN services include a direct 10 gigabit-per-second network pathway between its two facilities.
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05.19.09 - Discover Plays Important Role in Recent Shuttle Mission
Computations performed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center engineers on the NCCS Discover cluster played an important role in the recent shuttle mission.
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05.18.09 - The Ozone Hole and Global Warming
A new study led by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies examines possible connections between reduced Southern Hemisphere ozone and Northern Hemisphere Arctic warming.

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High-resolution numerical simulation of young stars
IBM iDataPlex Cluster
The NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) expanded its “Discover” high-end computer by integrating a 4,096-core IBM iDataPlex cluster.
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