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| Agency overview | |
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| Formed | 1982 |
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| Headquarters | NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 37°25′16″N 122°03′53″W / 37.42111°N 122.06472°W |
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| Parent department | Ames Research Center Exploration Technology Directorate |
| Parent agency | National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| Website | www |
| Current Supercomputing Systems | |
| Pleiades | SGI/HPE ICE X supercluster |
| Aitken[1] | HPE E-Cell system |
| Electra[2] | SGI/HPE ICE X & HPE E-Cell system |
| Endeavour | SGI UV shared-memory system |
| Merope[3] | SGI Altix supercluster |
The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division is located at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. It has been the major supercomputing and modeling and simulation resource for NASA missions in aerodynamics, space exploration, studies in weather patterns and ocean currents, and space shuttle and aircraft design and development for almost forty years.
The facility currently houses the petascale Pleiades, Aitken, and Electra supercomputers, as well as the terascale Endeavour supercomputer. The systems are based on SGI and HPE architecture with Intel processors. The main building also houses disk and archival tape storage systems with a capacity of over an exabyte of data, the hyperwall visualization system, and one of the largest InfiniBand network fabrics in the world.[4] The NAS Division is part of NASA's Exploration Technology Directorate and operates NASA's High-End Computing Capability (HECC) Project.[5]
- ^ "Aitken Supercomputer homepage". NAS.
- ^ "Electra Supercomputer homepage". NAS.
- ^ "Merope Supercomputer homepage". NAS.
- ^ "NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division: Advanced Computing" (PDF). NAS. 2019.
- ^ "NAS Homepage - About the NAS Division". NAS.