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NASA CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCES (NCCS) OVERVIEW
NASA Center for Computational Sciences, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. Photo by Mike Hollis.
The NCCS was formed in 1990 with the arrival of the first Cray supercomputers at Goddard Space Flight Center, carrying on a role dating from the 1960s to provide computing and data services to NASA's science community. Today, the NCCS is housed within the Sciences and Exploration Directorate at Goddard and supports modeling and analysis activities for Science Mission Directorate (SMD) users in the Earth Sciences, Heliophysics Science, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics Science Divisions. SMD researchers are developing and using atmospheric, ocean, land surface, space, and solar models as well as coupled modeling systems.
The NCCS operates a diverse collection of hardware, including Discover, a new 2,560-processor Linux Networx Custom Supersystem with an integrated visualization cluster. Other computing systems include Explore, a 1,152-processor SGI Altix 3700, and Courant, a 128-processor SGI Origin 3800. The NCCS also maintains and preserves a multi-petabyte archive of data from SMD missions and projects.
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- Last Updated: February 11, 2008
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