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| CISTO News is the quarterly newsletter of the Computational
and Information Sciences and Technology Office of Goddard Space
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NCCS to Install Next-Generation
Supercomputer
The NASA Center for Computational Sciences
(NCCS) will soon install the first stage of its next-generation
supercomputer, a Linux Networx Custom Supersystem.
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NASA HPC Centers Support Gravitational
Wave Breakthrough
Black holes with masses
millions of times the mass of a star have been found
in the core of our Milky Way and many other galaxies.
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Scientists Confirm Historic Massive
Flood Changed Climate
Scientists from NASA and Columbia University have
used computer modeling to successfully reproduce an abrupt
climate change that took place 8,200 years ago.
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NCCS Supports Inaugural DICE Vendor's
Day
The NCCS supported the inaugural Data Intensive
Computing Environment (DICE) Vendor’s Day held in
Springfield, OH, on March 6.
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NCCS Holds First
Users Forum
On June 6, staff held the first NCCS Users Forum
to introduce the new Linux Networx Custom Supersystem to
the NASA community.
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Montage Software Fuels
Astronomical Advances
With a growing international user base, the
Montage image mosaic software has become a valuable
tool in the astronomer’s arsenal.
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Network Infrastructure
Upgraded to 10 Gbps
Recognizing the demand for reliable high-speed
networks to support the HPC community and its projected
data flow requirement increases, the Scientific and Engineering
Network (SEN) and the NCCS each upgraded their network
infrastructures to 10 gigabit per second (Gbps).
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Scientists Discover
Newly Forming Solar System with Bi-directional Orbits
Astronomers studying a disk
of material circling a still-forming star inside our
galaxy have found a tantalizing result—the inner
part of the disk is orbiting the protostar in the opposite
direction from the outer part of the disk.
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Computer Scientist Receives 2006
Kerley Award from Office of Technology Transfer
On
April 4, GSFC’s Deputy Director Michael Ryschkewitsch
presented James Tilton, a computer scientist of
CISTO’s Information Science and Technology
Research group, with the GSFC Office of Technology
Transfer’s James Kerley Award.
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