Thursday, April 22, 2010

NASA's Earth Day Gift Runs On a 56,832-Core, 128-Screen Climate Research Supercomputer

NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Facility at Ames Research Center This ain't NASA's first supercomputer.

From Popular Science:

Earth Week is upon us, and NASA has prepared a very special gift for the blue planet. Dwarfing the iPods that we customarily give each other to celebrate another year of existence, NASA put together NEX, a planetary data-crunching tool that uses a 56,832-core, 128-screen supercomputer to blend global satellite data and sophisticated modeling software with an online collaborative culture aimed at helping scientists work together toward better climate change research.

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