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NAS FACT
NAS' Pleiades supercomputer is named after the open star cluster in the constellation of Taurus. The cluster is also known as M45, the Seven Sisters, and (in Japan) Subaru. The cluster is dominated by hot blue stars which have formed within the last 100 million years. Astronomers estimate that the cluster will survive for about another 250 million years.



For 25 years, the NAS Division has been dedicated to providing scientists and engineers with the supercomputing resources and simulation tools needed to carry out critical NASA missions and make new scientific discoveries for the benefit of humankind.


PLEIADES UPDATE

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06.27.08 - Pleiades Supercomputer Progress
All 4,096 cores of first two Pleiades sets are ready for substantial testing, now that security checks on the second set Pleiades systems are completed.
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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.
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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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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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TECHNICAL HIGHLIGHTS

OVERFLOW Improvements Accelerate Some Simulations
NAS has recently made significant improvements to the popular OVERFLOW code, leading to significant performance gains.
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NAS Deploys Red Hat Linux Under Parallels on Mac OS X
NAS recently developed and deployed a support model for installing and running the Red Hat Linux operating system under the virtualization software, Parallels.
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NAS Division Updates Widely Used Chimera Grid Tools Software
NAS has released a new version of the widely used Chimera Grid Tools software package.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Zone Application in Different OpenMP Approaches
This paper describes a performance study of a multi-zone application benchmark implemented in several OpenMP approaches that exploit multi-level parallelism and deal with unbalanced workload.
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Performance Evaluation of Supercomputers using HPCC and IMB Benchmarks
In this paper, authors use the High-Performance Computing Challenge (HPCC) benchmark suite -- designed to give a picture of overall supercomputer performance -- as a first comparison of several high-end computing systems.
+ Get Technical Report NAS-07-008 (PDF-1.1MB)

Testing Parallel Linear Iterative Solvers for Finite Element Groundwater Flow Problems
This paper outlines the results from testing several iterative parallel linear solvers to help determine the best one for groundwater flow applications.
+ Get Technical Report NAS-07-007 (PDF-708KB)


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COLUMBIA7 07/09/2008 05:00-19:00 07/09/2008 Power work + COLUMBIA8 07/09/2008 05:00-19:00 07/09/2008 Power work + PLEIADES 07/09/2008 05:00-19:00 07/09/2008 Power work + RTJONES 07/09/2008 05:00-19:00 07/09/2008 Power work +

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Last Updated: June 30, 2008