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High-End Computing Program

Delivering high-end computing systems and services to NASA's aeronautics, exploration, science, and space technology missions.

REQUESTING COMPUTING TIME AT NASA

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 Climate Simulation (NCCS).

11.03.16 – SMD Computing Time Requests Exceed Capacity
Continuing a multi-year trend, Science Mission Directorate (SMD) computing time requests far exceeded capacity at both the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility and the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS). As a result many principal investigators received smaller allocation awards than they requested.

LATEST NEWS

Portion of HPCwire award plaque
11.15.16 - NASA Private Cloud Wins HPCwire Award at SC16
A private cloud supporting NASA Earth scientists has won a 2016 HPCwire Readers’ Choice Award at the international SC16 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The award for Best Data-Intensive System (End-User Focused) went to ADAPT—the Advanced Data Analytics Platform at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).
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11.14.16 - NASA Ames Research Center, “Pleiades,” Supercomputer from SGI Ranks #13 on TOP500
The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility supercomputer, “Pleiades,” ranks #13 and is the most powerful SGI supercomputer on the prestigious TOP500 list.
SC16 conference logo
11.08.16 - NASA@SC16
NASA researchers and scientists will be presenting their work on agency supercomputers at the 2016 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC16), Salt Lake City, UT, November 13-18. SC16 will bring together the international supercomputing community—a gathering of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and developers that is unequaled in the world.
Photo of Stuart Rogers in front of computer monitor
11.02.16 – New Podcast Features NAS Aerospace Engineer Stuart Rogers
NASA award-winning aerospace engineer Stuart Rogers gives us insight into his important work to combine complex simulations and wind tunnel results for designing next-generation aircraft and spacecraft. The NAS Pleiades supercomputer is key to the process.
Atmospheric pressure in lower stratosphere 
altitudes from MERRA-2
09.27.16 - GMAO Science Snapshots
Recent efforts from NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office range from a field campaign measuring air quality to studies of oceanic and atmospheric oscillations affecting regional and global weather.
Snapshot from a simulation of Lyman-alpha blob
09.22.16 - Galactic Fireworks Illuminate Monster Hydrogen Blob
An international team of researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and other telescopes has discovered the power source illuminating a so-called Lyman-alpha Blob—a rare, brightly glowing, and enormous concentration of gas in the distant universe. Simulations were run on the NAS facility's Pleiades supercomputer.
Sea surface temperature patterns of the 2015 El Niño in the Pacific Ocean
09.13.16 - After Strong El Niño Winter, NASA Model Sees Return to Normal
Not too hot, not too cold – instead, water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean should be just around normal for the rest of 2016, according to forecasts from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office run at the NCCS.

HEC FACILITIES

NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility

NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA

NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD

USER QUICK LINKS

NCCS Portals
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HEC PORTFOLIO

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