Columbia was a supercomputer built by Silicon Graphics (SGI) for the National Aeornautics and Space Administration (NASA), installed in 2004 at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility located at Moffett Field in California. Named in honor of the crew who died in the Space Shuttle "Columbia" disaster, it increased NASA's supercomputing capacity ten-fold for the agency's science, aeronautics and exploration programs.