|
Pleiades Supercomputer
Pleiades () is a petascale supercomputer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center located at Moffett Federal Airfield, Moffett Field near Mountain View, California, Mountain View, California. It is maintained by NASA and partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Silicon Graphics International) and Intel. As of November 2019 it is ranked the 32nd most powerful computer on the TOP500 list with a LINPACK benchmarks, LINPACK rating of 5.95 FLOPS, petaflops (5.95 quadrillion floating point operations per second) and a peak performance of 7.09 petaflops from its most recent hardware upgrade. The system serves as NASA's largest supercomputing resource, supporting missions in aeronautics, human spaceflight, astrophysics, and Earth science. History Built in 2008 and named for the Pleiades Open cluster, open star cluster, the supercomputer debuted as the third most powerful supercomputer in the world ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division is located at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. It has been the major supercomputing and modeling and simulation resource for NASA missions in aerodynamics, space exploration, studies in weather patterns and ocean currents, and space shuttle and aircraft design and development for almost forty years. The facility currently houses the petascale Pleiades, Aitken, and Electra supercomputers, as well as the terascale Endeavour supercomputer. The systems are based on SGI and HPE architecture with Intel processors. The main building also houses disk and archival tape storage systems with a capacity of over an exabyte of data, the hyperwall visualization system, and one of the largest InfiniBand network fabrics in the world. The NAS Division is part of NASA's Exploration Technology Directorate and operates NASA's High-End Computing Capability (HECC) Project. History Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
