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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).


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