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).
- 10.23.09 - Science Mission Directorate Award Emails
- Award emails will go out October 26 for allocations beginning November 1. Please email support@hec.nasa.gov if you have any questions.
LATEST NEWS
- 11.18.09 - NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest
- NASA's Pleiades supercomputer at Ames Research Center has garnered the number 6 spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.
- 11.04.09 - NASA Showcases 'Green' Missions at SC09 Conference
- Five NASA centers join forces this month to showcase “green” science, engineering, and technology achievements at SC09, the leading international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis.
- 10.29.09 - Interactions with Aerosols Boost Warming Potential of Some Gases
- Certain gases that cause warming are so closely linked with aerosol production that the emissions of one type of pollutant can affect the quantity of the other, as shown by Goddard Institute for Space Studies simulations.
- 08.24.09 - NASA Expands High-End Computing System for Climate Simulation
- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center made available to scientists in August the first unit of an expanded high-end computing system that will serve as the centerpiece of a new climate simulation capability.
- 07.28.09 - Simulations Enable Successful Hubble Navigation Experiment
- Months-long simulations at NCCS produced thousands of images that were critical for planning and testing the Hubble Relative Navigation Sensor Experiment.
USER QUICK LINKS
- Getting Started
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- NAS User Services —Exit HEC site
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NCCS Portals
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- User Portal —Exit HEC site
- PI Portal —Exit HEC site
- Sector Head Portal —Exit HEC site
- Administrator Portal —Exit HEC site
FEATURED IMAGE
- Space Shuttle RTF Ascent Aerodynamics and Debris Transport Analysis
- Pressure coefficient on the Space Shuttle Launch Vehicle and in the near-body flowfield.
HEC Program
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- Website Manager: Jarrett Cohen
- Last Updated: November 18, 2009
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