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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 Computational Sciences (NCCS).


LATEST NEWS

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06.25.08 - NASA Develops World's Highest Resolution Visualization System
The power to visualize highly complex information in a way that's easier for the human mind to grasp is taking a giant leap forward with the advent of NASA's new hyperwall-2 system unveiled today at Ames Research Center.
Visualization of Ensemble mean differences in total atmospheric dust loading over North America
06.18.08 - Modeling the Dust Bowl Climate Forcings
A series of climate model simulations studied how dust storms altered precipitation during the Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s.
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06.12.08 - NASA Aircraft Examine Impact of Forest Fires on Arctic Climate
NASA aircraft will follow the trails of smoke plumes from some of Earth's northernmost forest fires, examining their contribution to arctic pollution. Researchers will use the data to validate satellite observations and improve model predictions.
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05.07.08 - NASA, Intel, SGI Plan to 'Soup Up' Supercomputer
NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency’s supercomputer performance and capacity.

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High-resolution numerical simulation of young stars
Numerical Investigation of Young Stars
Cornell University is using NASA’s Columbia supercomputer to investigate matter distribution around young magnetized stars.
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