schreiber@schreiber.asd.sgi.com (Olivier Schreiber) (11/27/90)
>From: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) >Subject: NASA to use world's fastest supercomputer (Forwarded) >Message-ID: <1990Nov22.043644.12947@news.arc.nasa.gov> >Date: 22 Nov 90 04:36:44 GMT >Sender: usenet@news.arc.nasa.gov (USENET Administration) >Reply-To: yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) >Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA >Lines: 63 Sarah Keegan November 14, 1990 Headquarters, Washington, D.C. (Phone: 202/453-2754) RELEASE: 90-151 NASA TO USE WORLD'S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER NASA researchers will have access to the world's fastest supercomputer as a member of the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium, a newly-formed group of the nation's premier research organizations. Consortium members will be able to access Intel Corporation's Touchstone DELTA supercomputer system, slated for installation at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, Calif., next spring. The DELTA system has a peak speed of 32 billion floating point operations per second, making it the world's fastest computer. The consortium will tackle some of today's most demanding computational and scientific challenges, such as global climate modeling, space science data analysis and pattern recognition of DNA sequences in the human genetic makeup. NASA will use the DELTA system as part of the agency's High- Performance Computing Initiative (HPCI), an ambitious program to accelerate the computing research capabilities required to maintain U.S. aeronautical and space science leadership in the 21st century. For example, DELTA will dramatically improve NASA's capability to simulate the performance of integrated aerospace vehicle systems throughout their flight regimes and mission profiles and will greatly enhance multidisciplinary research in global climate change and astrophysics. NASA will begin to use the DELTA system for research soon after it becomes available at Caltech. In addition, NASA researchers working on HPCI also will evaluate how much of an increase in computational performance DELTA offers over the agency's present systems. Lee B. Holcomb, Director of the Information Sciences and Human Factors Division in NASA's Office of Aeronautics, Exploration and Technology (OAET), is the agency's representative on the Concurrent Supercomputing Consortium's Policy Board. The board is headed by Caltech astronomer Thomas A. Prince. Paul Messina, also of Caltech, is Executive Director of the Consortium. Other members of the consortium are Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill.; California Institute of Technology; NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; Center for Research in Parallel Computation (lead center, Rice University, Houston); Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Arlington, Va.; Intel Corporation's Supercomputer Systems Division, Beaverton, Ore.; National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.; Pacific Northwest Laboratory, Richland, Wash.; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif.; Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, N. Mex.; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. and Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, N. Mex. -- Olivier Schreiber schreiber@schreiber.asd.sgi.com Tel(415)335 7353 Technical Marketing MS 7L580 Silicon Graphics Inc., 2011 North Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, Ca 94039-7311