Nasa Powers Up With Supercomputer
Filed in: Linux, Technology — August 24th, 2004Project Columbia, a collaboration with two technology giants, will mean Nasa’s computing power will be ramped up by 10 times to do complex simulations.
It will be one of the world’s biggest Linux-based supercomputers.
The new supercomputer will help the agency model flight missions, climate research, and aerospace engineering.
The system will have 500 terabytes of storage, the equivalent of 800,000 CDs. It will use the might of 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors for complex computer simulations.
Nasa said the supercomputer will help patch holes in its computing power limitations that were highlighted following the Columbia shuttle disaster in which seven astronauts were killed.
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