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Stay up to date with what's happening in the NAS Division by browsing our news items, science highlights, and technical reports.
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NEWS & PRESS RELEASES
05.20.09 - HEC Wide-Area Networking Transitioning to NISN May 27, 2009
NASA-internal wide-area networking services for the High-End Computing (HEC) Program are transitioning to the NASA Integrated Services
Network (NISN). HEC's new NISN services include a direct 10 gigabit-per-second network pathway between its two facilities.
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05.19.09 - NASA Supercomputing Goes Green: Modeling Earth's Ocean Climate
The NAS facility's Pleiades and Columbia supercomputers have been critical to helping earth scientists increase the accuracy of new cube-based ocean models and simulations.
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04.20.09 - NASA Ames Selects Spectra Logic Federal for Data Archive
NASA Ames Research Center recently installed two Spectra T950 tape libraries, increasing data storage capacity to 32 petabytes while replacing 10 older-technology silos and freeing more than 1,400 square feet of floor space.
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NAS TECHNICAL REPORTS
Scientific Application-Based Performance Comparison of SGI Altix 4700, IBM Power5+, and SGI ICE 8200 Supercomputers
This paper evaluates performance of a dual-core SGI Altix 4700, a quad-core SGI Altix ICE 8200, and a dual-core IBM POWER5+ system. To measure performance, NAS computer scientists used micro-benchmarks from the High Performance Computing
Challenge, NAS Parallel Benchmarks, and four real-world applications—three from computational fluid dynamics and one from climate modeling.
Authored by: Subhash Saini, Dale Talcott, Dennis Jespersen, Jahed Djomehri, Haoqiang Jin, and Rupak Biswas
+ NAS-09-001 (PDF-4.5MB)
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