Bldg N258 - NASA Advanced Supercomputing Facility (Mountain View, California)

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The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division provides NASA's primary high end computing (HEC) capability, operating powerful supercomputers, massive data storage systems, and high-speed networking to support a vast array of large computations needed to advance the Agency's missions of science, aeronautics research, and space exploration. This includes the modeling, simulation, analysis, and decision support activities for all of NASA's four mission directorates. The goal is to develop and deliver the most productive high-end computing environment in the world, enabling NASA to extend technology, expand knowledge, and explore the universe. The NAS Division, known worldwide for its innovation and expertise in HEC, was built in 1986, following a long history of computing leadership at Ames extending back to the early 1950s.

NAS HEC operations include a comprehensive set of user services to ensure that resources are effectively utilized by modeling and simulation experts from NASA centers, academia, and industry across the nation and around the clock. A 24x7 control room responds immediately to user issues and ensures that HEC systems remain fully and continuously operational. Application experts resolve complex problems and enhance the performance of computational modeling, simulation, and analysis applications. To assist users in interpreting the massive and complex data sets resulting from computations, a visualization and data analysis team develops application-driven software tools and pioneered hyperwall and concurrent visualization capabilities. Supercomputing and data system administrators continuously customize and optimize system configurations to ensure that even the most demanding requirements can be met. And finally, end-to-end networking services enable application scientists and engineers from geographically dispersed locations to efficiently access computational resources and quickly transfer massive datasets.

Bldg N258, Ames Research Center
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