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Columbia Fact
Twenty years ago, the most powerful computer at NASA Ames ran at a speed of about 1 gigaflop (one billion calculations per second). The Columbia supercomputer is 50 thousand times faster than that!
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NASA's most powerful supercomputer, named Columbia to honor the Space Shuttle astronauts, is revitalizing the agency's high-end computing infrastructure and helping make breakthrough scientific discoveries and engineering advances to support agency missions.
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COLUMBIA SUPERCOMPUTER
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