+ NASA Home + Ames Home + Sitemap + Staff Directory +Home HIGH END SYSTEMS + Pleiades + Columbia + Schirra + RTJones NAS in the News + NASA Selects SGI To Prov ide Large Shared-Memory System + NASA invites open-source partners + Get the Report 'High-End Computing at NASA 2006' (PDF-8.3MB) Stay up to date with what's happening in the NAS Division by browsing our news items, science highlights, and technical reports. NEWS & PRESS RELEASES 06.25.08 - NASA Develops World's Highest Resolution Visualization System The power to visualize highly complex information in a way that's easier for the human mind to grasp is taking a giant leap forward with the advent of NASA's new hyperwall-2 system unveiled today at Ames Research Center. + Read More 05.07.08 - NASA, Intel, SGI Plan to 'Soup Up' Supercomputer NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency's supercomputer performance and capacity. + Read More 04.21.08 - NAS Facility Marks 25 Years of Accomplishments This year is the 25th anniversary of NASA's premier supercomputing organization at Ames Research Center. Agency officials today observed the occasion of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division's legacy of accomplishments in high performance computing, and aerospace modeling and simulation. + Read More NAS TECHNICAL REPORTS Performance Comparison of SGI Altix 4700 and SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 In this paper, authors evaluate the performance of a newly introduced dual-core-based SGI Altix 4700 system and compare its performance with that of a single-core-based SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 system. + Read More Performance Evaluation of a Multi-Zone Application in Different OpenMP Approaches This paper describes a performance study of a multi-zone application benchmark implemented in several OpenMP approaches that exploit multi-level parallelism and deal with unbalanced workload. + Read More Performance Evaluation of Supercomputers using HPCC and IMB Benchmarks In this paper, authors use the High-Performance Computing Challenge (HPCC) benchmark suite -- designed to give a picture of overall supercomputer performance -- as a first comparison of several high-end computing systems. + Read More NEWS ARCHIVE Visit our News Archive. + 2007 + 2006 + 2005 + 2004 + 2003 Visit Ames News Archive. + View more news Visit NASA News Archive. + View more news + Feedback + Site Help + NASA Privacy Statement, Disclaimer, and Accessibility Certification Editor: Jill Dunbar Webmaster: John Hardman NASA Official: Rupak Biswas + Contact NAS Last Updated: August 15, 2008