Publications & Media

NAS News, the bimonthly publication of the NAS Systems Division, gives the latest news and information about high-performance computing at the NAS Facility. Currents, a multimedia publication, contains articles pertaining to news of the NAS Facility, with an emphasis on scientific visualization, graphics, animation, audio, and video. NAS Highlights note key events at the NAS Facility.

Here is the entire array of documentation relevant to the NAS and Aeronautics Consolidated Supercomputing Facility user communities, including user guides, systems' status, and important messages.

Left-brained analytical types and managers might love the variety of metrics available. Statistics and graphs indicate improvements in systems, processes and services provided to NAS Facility users.

Technical Reports written by NAS Facility staff are archived by year. A select group of related papers are also available, as well as the NAS Parallel Benchmarks Index.

Research teams using the NAS Facility's supercomputers give an annual synopsis of their work. A collection of these Technical Summaries, organized by year and scientific discipline, includes brief explanations of the research objective, approach, accomplishments, possible future work, and related publications -- along with some dynamite graphics.

Other media include: a data set archive, which provides valuable information for scientists in computational fluid dynamics and related fields; a software archive for downloading NAS-developed at software; and a gallery of images and video clips related to the scientific research done using NAS Facility resources.