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FEATURE STORIES: 2007 ARCHIVE
- High-End Computing (HEC) at NASA: An Interview with Tsengdar Lee and Phil Webster
- Two HEC Program leaders discuss its role within NASA and the impact of IT industry trends on computational science and engineering.
- MERRA Project to Reconstruct Last 30 Years of Earth's Climate and Weather
- The largest application ever hosted by the NASA Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) will produce a comprehensive record of the atmosphere during the Earth-observing satellite era.
- Discover Cluster Expands with New Processors and Visualization Capabilities
- With the addition of 1,024 processors, Discover will offer five times the computing power of the NCCS system it replaces.
- NASA Achievement Medal Goes to HEC Investigator Joan Centrella
- For groundbreaking work in black hole research, Goddard Space Flight Center's Centrella received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal.
- Project FastPath: Supporting Decision-Making with NASA Modeling
- This alliance between HEC and NASA's Applied Sciences Program aims to put the power of model-based prediction into decision-makers' hands.
- Columbia Helps Validate Innovative Control Concepts for Supersonic Aircraft
- NASA researchers are using the Columbia supercomputer to identify new flight control concepts for tailless supersonic aircraft.
- Science in Silico
- A new video from Seed Magazine features black hole merger simulations led by HEC investigator Joan Centrella of Goddard Space Flight Center.
- Columbia Used to Validate Ares I-X Test Vehicle Configuration
- Computational models of the Ares I-X test vehicle configuration run on the Columbia supercomputer will help NASA's Constellation Program meet their 2009 launch target.
- High-Fidelity Simulations Will Enable Clean Combustion
- Simulations run on NASA's Columbia supercomputer aid in the development of clean fuel-efficient combustion systems for transportation and stationary power generation.
- New Supercomputer Node Installed in Record Time, Yields Sizeable Performance Gains
- Within 5 days of delivery, a next-generation SGI Altix 4700 system was completing jobs, on average, 20% faster than the Altix 3700 it replaced.
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