Delivering high-end computing systems and services to NASA's aeronautics, exploration, science, and space operations 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 Computational Sciences (NCCS).
LATEST NEWS
- 11.18.08 - NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest
- NASA's newest supercomputer at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the number three spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.
- 11.13.08 - The First Pictures of Not One, Not Two, But Three Planets Orbiting a Star
- A computing time allocation at the NAS facility helped a team of astronomers using the Keck and Gemini North telescopes to discover three planets in orbit around the young star HR 8799.
- 11.06.08 - NASA Featured at SC08
- NASA will highlight some of its most inspiring science and engineering achievements at the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC08), at the Austin Convention Center, Austin, Texas, Nov. 15–21, 2008.
- 10.15.08 - Getting a Grip on Ice Sheet Changes
- To better understand how climate change will affect the Greenland ice sheet, scientists modeled the melting Laurentide ice sheet of 9,000 years ago.
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FEATURED IMAGE

- Numerical Investigation of Young Stars
- Cornell University is using NASA’s Columbia and Discover supercomputers to investigate matter distribution around young magnetized stars.