If the supercomputer is still operational at the end of one year -- Fernandez said it'll pave the way for NASA to send up even more powerful computers. And one day, a similar computer could be ...

NASA’s supercomputing capabilities helped the United States win the space race against the Soviet Union, but the agency now needs to emphasize oversight and management of its high-end computing ...

S pirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer ...

NASA's Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) announced it's almost tripling the peak performance of its Discover supercomputer, to more than 3.3 petaflops. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window ...

NASA’s supercomputer visualizations reveal in magnificent detail how the mass of 4.3 million Suns might work to radically warp the light from the flat accretion disk.

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer is the world's sixth-most powerful. Servicing the entire space agency, the computer has been measured at 973 teraflops.

Republican control of the Senate means that one the most fanatical climate change deniers in Congress, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), is now in line to head the Senate subcommittee that oversees science ...

The role of the NASA Ames Research Center as the information technology leader for the new spaceship program signals one giant leap for U.S. supercomputing, researchers and federal officials say ...

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA’s newest supercomputer at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the number three spot on the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful computers.

NASA recently showed off one of these simulations—the Apollo 12 landing—during its appearance at SC23, an annual international supercomputing conference in Denver, Colorado.

NASA researchers have teamed up with a pair of Silicon Valley firms to build a supercomputer that ranks alongside the world's largest Linux-based systems. When complete, the Space Exploration ...