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The High-Performance Computing Group manages and operates the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS). NCCS provides state-of-the-art supercomputing and data services for weather and climate research, serving a user community based at NASA centers and laboratories and universities across the country and internationally.

NCCS' advanced data mass-storage system, data distribution technologies, and high-speed networks allow researchers to access the enormous volume of data generated by weather and climate models running on the facility's supercomputers. NCCS also makes available data analysis and visualization tools needed to interpret modeling data.

NCCS collaborates with high-performance computing experts in industry, universities, and other government agencies to continually enhance its facilities, resources, and services to meet users' ever-escalating computing needs.

Press Releases & Feature Stories

Planet on Fire

03.07.2013
Combining observations from the MODIS instruments onboard NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites with the GEOS-5/GOCART atmosphere model reveals fire's global reach.

Simulations Uncover 'Flashy' Secrets of Merging Black Holes

09.27.2012
Scientists use simulations to investigate what kind of "flash" might be seen by telescopes when astronomers ultimately find gravitational signals from merging black holes.

Simulated Nature Runs its Course

07.31.2012
A NASA Goddard climate model called GEOS-5 revisited the extraordinary 2005 Atlantic hurricane season as part of a gigantic two-year simulation run on Goddard’s Discover supercomputer.

NCCS Makes CMIP5 Data Available

06.12.2012
NASA's data contributions to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), as well as reanalysis and observational data, are now available on the NCCS Earth System Grid Federation Gateway.

Paint by Particle

05.24.2012
NASA models and supercomputing have created a colorful new view of aerosol movement. The simulation took several weeks to process on a NASA Center for Climate Simulation supercomputer.
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Code 606.2 is the High Performance Computing Group, providing supercomputing and data storage services.

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Dr. Lynn A. Parnell
301.286.2320
Lead [606.2]
Heidi M Dewan
301.286.9426
Office Coordinator [606]

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