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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).

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01.05.09 - Science Time Requests Due March 20

The Science Mission Directorate (SMD) will select from requests submitted to the e-Books online system by March 20 for 1-year allocation awards to begin on May 1. Any current projects set to expire on April 30 must have a request in e-Books to be considered for renewal.

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 highlighted 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.