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 Climate Simulation (NCCS).
LATEST NEWS
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
USER QUICK LINKS
NCCS Portals
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FEATURED IMAGE

- 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.