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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.
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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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05.21.08 - NASA Presentations at American Geophysical Union Joint Assembly
The presentations include a talk on "Simulating Sources of Superstorm Plasmas," research being carried out at the NASA Center for Computational Sciences.
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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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05.06.08 - SGI to Supply NASA's Next Major Supercomputer
NASA has chosen SGI to supply its next major supercomputer, a 20,480-core SGI ICE system, after a competitive evaluation the space agency launched last year.
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04.24.08 - Ozone Hole Recovery Will Reshape Climate Change
A full recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole could strongly modify climate change in the Southern Hemisphere and possibly amplify warming of the Antarctic continent, according to simulations using NASA's Columbia supercomputer.
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04.21.08 - NAS Facility Marks 25 Years of Accomplishments
This year marks the 25th anniversary of NASA's premier supercomputing organization at Ames Research Center. Agency officials today observed the occasion of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division's legacy of accomplishments in high-performance computing, and aerospace modeling and simulation.
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04.01.08 - NASA Launches Airborne Study of Arctic Atmosphere, Air Pollution
The Arctic Research of the Composition of the Troposphere from Aircraft and Satellites, or ARCTAS, is the most extensive field campaign ever to investigate the chemistry of the Arctic's lower atmosphere.

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