News and Updates
CSC World Magazine features CSC's work at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS)
Located in NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD and supported by CSC, the article highlights our work including Big Data management, data storage, and data visualization. Be sure to check out the whole story in the Spring issue of CSC World. (May-2012)
A New Standard in Software Debugging
CSC's Johnny Chang who supports the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) division at NASA Ames in California quoted in Marketwire.com article Rouge Wave Software Sets a New Standard for Debugging regarding Rouge Wave's repackaging of the TotalView debugger. (May-2012)
NASA’s Pleiades now Running Faster and More Precise, Complex Space Weather Simulations
As the HPC service provider to NASA Ames, CSC is proud to highlight the scaling of NASA’s SGI Pleiades InfiniBand Cluster to 25,000 Intel® Xeon® Processor Cores at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
To learn more about how the scalable architectural design of the SGI ICE platform is helping to solve increasingly complex problems please head to SGI’s press release page for the full story.
CSC's High Performance Computing Center of Excellence is Once Again Featured in CSC World Magazine
The HPC CoE was spotlighted in the CSC World Magazine Winter 2011 feature article “The ‘Data rEvolution’ Has Begun.” In the paragraph about managing big data the article highlights the work the HPC team is doing managing the massive amounts of data at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
NASA Selects Next-Generation SGI(R) ICE HPC Platform for Technology Upgrade
As the service provider to NASA Ames, CSC is proud to support this technology upgrade at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing(NAS) Facility at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA.
In an effort to extend the computational capability of NASA's Pleiades Supercomputer system, NASA has selected an SGI(R) ICE HPC platform. The expansion to the Pleiades system, currently ranked the seventh most powerful HPC system in the world on the Top500 list, will take place in early 2012. The integration will add approximately 35% to the peak capability of Pleiades through the addition of over 1,700 compute nodes at 32GB per node.
To read more about the upgrade please visit the SGI website at http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2011/november/nasa.html
CSC to Use SGI High Performance Computing System to Advance Climate Forecast Modeling at NOAA
Check out the SGI press release on CSC's selection of an SGI Supercomputing System to be installed in NOAA's Environmental Security Computing Center in Fairmont, West Virginia.
CSC Employee Cathy B. Parks Wins Exceptional Public Service Medal from NASA
With inspired leadership and innovative thinking, Cathy Parks conceived and put into operation a new approach to enterprise computer support. By integrating and automating functions and tools, Parks increased security monitoring and achieved greater efficiency of system development and administration.
Her idea not only met the unique support requirements of NASA scientists and engineers but achieved better support, faster response time and increased security with no increase in staff.
The success of this program is the direct result of Parks’ vision of a more productive environment for NASA researchers. Though this idea was conceived to support the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division (NAS) at Ames Research Center, the benefits of this work are being extended throughout the center and the agency.
CSC's David Ivey Among Panelists Invited to Discuss Ways to Improve the Tennessee Valley Area's Infrastructure In Light of the Issues Caused by the April 27th Tornado Outbreak.
CSC’s David Ivey, the program director for the Alabama Supercomputer Center (ASC) spoke as a panelist this Tuesday at the “Resilience of Our Critical Infrastructure and Cyber Security Summit.” The summit was hosted by two Tennessee Valley Initiatives CyberHuntsville and Energy Huntsville to discuss ways to improve the Huntsville area’s cyber and traditional infrastructure.
The CSC team was able to keep the Alabama Supercomputer Center running continuously through the April 27th tornadoes disaster and the week following by utilizing Dual fuel, parallel, redundant generators while Huntsville experienced a week long city-wide power outage.
The ability to run continuously through the crisis allowed the CSC team at ASC to offer special support throughout the community to clients such as the City of Huntsville and many Universities allowing the public to receive information at a critical time.
You can head to local news station WHNT’s website to read more about the Summit.
Pleiades Supercomputer Ranks 7th in the TOP500 list of the Worlds Most Powerful, High Performance Computers.
CSC is once again proud to support NASA Ames and their Pleiades Supercomputer, which has repeatedly placed top 10 in the TOP500 list of the worlds most powerful supercomputers. Pleiades is located at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. You can read more about the system, recent performance expansions and its capabilities in the full press release.
The HPC Center of Excellence Appears in CSC WORLD Magazine
The HPC CoE was recently mentioned as part of the cover story on Big Data in the Spring 2011 issue of CSC WORLD Magazine.
To read the article head to the cover feature Big Data: A Big Part of Our Business and scroll down six paragraphs until you reach the section on High Performance Computing.
NASA Extends Supercomputing Support Services
CSC will continue to provide supercomputing support services at NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, CA.
This is the third one-year option on the contract, and is valued at approximately $58.6 million.
The full press release is available on NASA.gov.
Bright Cluster Manager selected for Internal Testing by DICE
CSC is proud to have actively supported Avetec's team in publishing an in-depth report on the Bright Computing Cluster Manager 5.1 software, which helped guide DICE to select the Bright Cluster Manager to manage their internal test clusters.
To read more about Avetec's DICE HPC division or the selection of the Bright Cluster Manager please visit Inside HPC's website at http://insidehpc.com/2011/01/31/dice-selects-bright-cluster-manager-for-internal-testing/
In addition you can find a direct link to the report at http://www.diceprogram.net/reports/docs/Bright_Computing_Evaluation.pdf
On the Leading Edge of Technology
CSC is proud to support NASA Ames and their Pleiades supercomputer, currently ranked as the 6th fastest computer in the world. Pleiades is located at the NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. You can read more about the system and its capabilities here.
CSC Wins National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Contract
FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 14 – CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded the company a Research and Development High Performance Computing System indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract. The IDIQ contract has a four-year base period, one four-year option and one one-year transition option, bringing the estimated contract value to $317 million if all options are exercised. The first year will be funded at $49.3 million by NOAA using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. You can read more about the contract by viewing the full press release on csc.com.
CSC Expert Explains Data Management Landscape to International Grid Computing Community
CSC's Tracey Wilson authored this article on data management, published in iSGTW (International Science Grid This Week). Wilson is program manager for DICE - the Data Intensive Computing Environment - a program focused on independent, third-party evaluation of data management technologies. DICE provides a geographically distributed test environment - the only one of its kind - for new products and emerging technologies. It is becoming the industry’s trusted source for independent product and technology testing, evaluation, architecture optimization and research as it reduces risk and time-to-solution for high performance computing and other IT challenges. DICE is a core program of Avetec, a non-profit company that CSC supports under contract.
NASA's Supercomputer Resources Upgraded
CSC's HPC CoE team has implemented an expansion to the Alabama Supercomputer Authority's DMC (Dense Memory Cluster) supercomputer system. This expansion adds an additional 96 nodes, each with 8 processor cores and 24 GB of memory. The processors are the new Intel Nehalem chips (5500 series Xeon) running at 2.26 GHz. These processors have some architectural improvements that give them significantly better performance than previous processors of similar clock speeds. This expands the DMC from 488 processor cores to a total of 1256 processor cores. Alabama Supercomputer Authority is located in Huntsville, Alabama.
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