At the Glenn Research Center, we are developing efficient technologies and tools to integrate aerospace applications into a distributed object framework. The latest system software works to implement a Beowulf aware environment that presents a single system image to t he user. No longer simply a collection of computers, a Beowulf is a computing system with a collection of processing resources. NASA is tackling questions like these inside supercomputers. Here, billions of calculations per second recreate the universe mathem atically.
Supercomputers can process observations into a motion picture.
Or, they can solve equations that describe realities seen and unseen . It is a unit of the agency's High Performance Computing and Communications Program. The Virtual Mission Lifecycle develops subsystem behavior models based on performance and operation properties of each subsystem, integrates the subsystem models via an operation executive, and executes realistic observation scenarios by providing a synthetic mission environment. Parallel Unstructured Adaptive Mesh Refinement is a software library for performing parallel adaptive mesh refinement on unstructured meshes. It uses triangular or tetrahedral elements for the adaptive mesh.