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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 Climate Simulation (NCCS).

LATEST NEWS

Cross-section of ancient asteroid belt
04.25.12 - NASA Scientists Find History of Asteroid Impacts in Earth Rocks
Research by NASA and international scientists concludes giant asteroids, similar or larger than the one believed to have killed the dinosaurs, hit Earth billions of years ago with more frequency than previously thought. Computer models of the ancient main asteroid belt ran at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division.
Screen capture from video on ocean currents showing the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic
04.09.12 - NASA Views Our Perpetual Ocean
Tens of thousands of ocean currents are captured in a new scientific visualization created by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center from model-data syntheses made possible by high-end computing resources at NASA's Ames Research Center.
Photo of wind turbines at sunset
03.19.12 - Engineers Enlist Weather Model to Optimize Offshore Wind Plan
Using a sophisticated weather model, environmental engineers at Stanford University have defined optimal placement of a grid of four wind farms off the U.S. East Coast. The NAS Division provided access to computational resources.
Artist's concept depicting the circumbinary planet called Kepler-16b (black circle) as it orbits a slowly rotating K-dwarf star and a small red dwarf star
03.06.12 – Searching for Sister Planets
With the help of one of NASA's largest space telescopes and its most powerful supercomputer, scientists are analyzing observational data gathered from the Kepler mission spacecraft to search the skies for Earth's sister planets.
Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) image of an X1.8 class solar flare
02.27.12 - Cracking the Mysteries of Space Weather
Our planet is mostly protected from solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other space weather events by a cocoon of magnetic field called the magnetosphere. But sometimes Earth's magnetosphere "cracks" and lets space weather inside, where it can cause damage.

HEC FACILITIES

NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

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NCCS at AGU
NASA Goddard's Phil Webster shows how supercomputing Earth's climate is done in the NASA booth at the 2011 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco.
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