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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 Climate Simulation (NCCS).

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LATEST NEWS

1.30.13 - GEOS-5 Successfully Predicts Stratospheric Sudden Warming Event

Near-real-time meteorological analyses and weather forecasts with NASA's GEOS-5 model successfully predicted the major stratospheric sudden warming event of January 2013.

01.25.13 – NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Scheduled to Launch in April

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission will use the Pleiades supercomputer to create and analyze 3D models of the sun based on data gathered by the orbiting observatory.

1.22.13 – Re-creating Earth's Oceans Inside a Supercomputer

Using complex computer models and the Pleiades supercomputer, scientists are taking a closer look at Earth's oceans and sea-ice to understand more about how they work and why they are changing.

1.16.13 – NASA Ozone Study May Benefit Air Standards, Climate

A new NASA-led study finds that when it comes to combating global warming caused by emissions of ozone-forming chemicals, location matters.

12.31.2012 - Tracking Hurricanes with GEOS-5

The GEOS-5 atmospheric model and assimilation analyses are used every day to generate 5-day weather forecasts. One view of GEOS-5 performance comes from forecasts of two of 2012's most destructive hurricanes: Isaac and Sandy.