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- From: aal@marvin.ae.utexas.edu (Alfred Lorber)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
- Subject: NASA Press Release concerning JPL and "The Cray T3D"
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:45:12 GMT
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- I don't know if this is old news to comp.sys.super readers, but I
- thought it was important enough to post even if it was:
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- From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- Sender: news@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov (Usenet)
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- Subject: NASA, Cray to Join in Parallel Supercomputer Research
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:11:36 GMT
-
- RELEASE: 92-205 November 16, 1992
-
- NASA, CRAY TO JOIN IN PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTER RESEARCH
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- NASA is collaborating with Cray Research, Inc., Eagan, Minn., to
- conduct joint research and development activities using the company's
- most powerful supercomputer.
-
- The partnership is a NASA response to the multi-agency High
- Performance Computing and Communications program, a bold national
- initiative to advance U.S. capabilities in supercomputing.
-
- The computer will be located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- (JPL), Pasadena, Calif., with the California Institute of Technology,
- Pasadena, as a collaborator in the project.
-
- "The Cray T3D system, together with our expertise in parallel
- processing, will allow us to tackle new computational problems in Earth
- and space sciences," said Dr. Carl Kukkonen, Supercomputing Project
- Manager at JPL.
-
- "More importantly, we will be able to feed back JPL's and Caltech's
- experiences to Cray and thus, contribute to maintaining U.S. leadership
- in supercomputing," Kukkonen added.
-
- "This collaboration will help us address the grand challenges of
- Earth and space sciences -- analyzing the enormous data sets from
- NASA's Earth and planetary missions," said Joseph Bredekamp of the
- Office of Space Science and Applications, NASA Headquarters. "We
- expect that 20 to 25 percent of our scientific computing will be
- performed on parallel computers within 3 years."
-
- NASA Applications
-
- JPL will use the new Cray T3D system for applications that require
- high-power computers -- turning planetary data from spacecraft into
- three-dimensional animations; electromagnetic simulations for the
- design of communications antennas; analyzing Earth satellite data;
- studying the dynamics of chemical reactions and the flow of space
- plasmas; and computational fluid dynamics.
-
- "NASA is committed to being an early user of new parallel
- supercomputers, and Cray will be an important player," said Lee
- Holcomb, Director for the High Performance Computing and
- Communications program at NASA Headquarters.
-
- In the fall of 1993, JPL will receive a Cray T3D system, the
- company's new "massively parallel" supercomputer. The innovative
- machine uses 256 processors to reach a peak speed of 38 billion floating
- point mathematical operations per second, making it Cray's most
- powerful computer. The effort involves JPL, Cray and the California
- Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena.
-
- Center Of Excellence
-
- Cray has designated JPL/Caltech as one of four "Cray Centers of
- Excellence in Parallel Computing." Under this program, the company
- will locate staff engineers at JPL to carry out joint research in parallel
- computing techniques.
-
- Cray President John Carlson said the company chose JPL as a site
- for its Center of Excellence program "because of the great expertise
- developed at JPL and the Caltech campus in parallel computation."
-
- The project is funded by NASA's Office of Aeronautics and Office of
- Space Science and Applications, Washington, D.C.
-
- Drucella Andersen Paula Cleggett-Haleim
- Headquarters, Washington, D.C Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
- (Phone: 202/453-8613) (Phone: 202/358-0883)
-
- Franklin O'Donnell
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
- (Phone: 818/354-5011)
-
- -end-
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