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The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division is enabling advances in some of the toughest science and engineering challenges facing NASA today.
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ABOUT THE NASA ADVANCED SUPERCOMPUTING (NAS) DIVISION
For nearly 25 years, the name "NAS" has been associated with leadership and innovation throughout the high-end computing (HEC) community. We play a significant role in shaping HEC standards and paradigms, and have a leading part in the development of large-scale, single-system image computers.
As part of the Exploration Technology Directorate at Ames Research Center, our division supplies some of the world's most powerful supercomputing resources to NASA and U.S. scientists.
We provide an integrated high-end computing environment to accelerate NASA missions and make revolutionary advances in science. The 245-teraflop Pleiades supercomputer, will increase our computing capability 2.5 times over the current 14,336-processor Columbia system — one of the fastest operational supercomputers in the world.
In addition, our integrated environment includes smaller testbed and next-generation systems, high-fidelity modeling and simulation, high-bandwidth local and wide area networking, parallel performance analysis and optimization, distributed information infrastructure, and advanced data analysis and visualization.
Our mission:
To lead the country in the development, and delivery of integrated, revolutionary, high-end computing services and technologies to facilitate NASA mission success.
Some of our high-level goals include:
- Provide the critical computing resources required to support remaining Space Shuttle missions.
- Use high-end computing technologies to provide true emergency-response capabilities for NASA and demonstrate this capability by providing crucial analysis in one day versus the current three to six months.
- Team with NASA's Advanced Space Transportation Program and outside partners to create breakthrough capabilities in space vehicle design.
- Support simulation and modeling for design and development of the Crew Launch Vehicle and Crew Exploration Vehicle.
- In the long term, provide breakthrough numerical simulations to advance foundational technologies for NASA's Vision for Space Exploration.
- Provide new capabilities for NASA's Earth science work in climate and weather modeling by dramatically increasing the resolution and fidelity of the nation's important climate and weather modeling codes.
- Work with NASA's research, and analysis teams to provide revolutionary capabilities in modeling the Earth and the Solar System, galactic and planetary evolution, supernovas, and more.
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