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NASA, SGI Plan Petaflop Computer Breakthrough

The race to petaflop supercomputers is heating up, with the latest entry coming from NASA, Intel and SGI. The trio announced plans to build what will be a petaflop-capable supercomputer by next year, and up to 10 petaflops (define)by 2012.

NASA's Educational Game Proposal Deadline Extended

NASA MMO Team writes "Due to the additional time required to respond to the number of questions that were raised during the NASA Massively Multiplayer Online Educational Game RFP Briefing held on April 21, 2008 in Baltimore, MD, we have decided to extend the RFP Proposal response date to Monday, July 21, 2008 at 12:00 midnight EDT. ... Please contact the NASA Learning Technologies Project Office at mmo@nasa.gov with any additional questions." (NASA has set up a site with additional information on the NASA MMO Education Game project, too.)

NASA Targets GLAST Launch for June 7

Contact: Katherine Trinidad of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-3749, katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov; George H. Diller of NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla., +1-321-867-2468, george.h.diller@nasa.gov; Rob Gutro of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., +1-301-286-4044, robert.j.gutro@nasa.gov

Intel, NASA and SGI Plan to Build 1PetaFlops Supercomputer by 2009.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Intel Corp., and SGI on Thursday announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency’s supercomputer performance and capacity. Under the terms of a “Space Act Agreement�, Intel and SGI will build a supercomputer with performance capacity that is two times higher compared to the fastest supercomputer today.

NASA looks for 10 petaflops with new computer

SGI and Intel are teaming up to build a supercomputer for NASA that they expect will pass the petaflop barrier next year and hit 10 petaflops by 2012. A petaflop is 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

NASA, NIA Announce NASA Education Television Partnership

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale announced Wednesday the launch of NASA Education TV (NASA eTV), a partnership with the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) to produce new educational television programs for distribution on NASA Television and the Internet.

NASA, Intel, SGI Plan to 'Soup Up' Supercomputer

NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency's supercomputer performance and capacity.

Apple patent lets you transfer user account from computer to computer

imageYou may soon be able to transfer your user account from computer to computer, according to an Apple patent (number 737824) filed at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. The invention relates generally to multi-user computer systems and, more particularly, user account management for multi-user computer systems.

NASA Flips for Petaflops

NASA is collaborating with Intell and SGI to create one of the world's fastest supercomputers whose power will be measured in petaflops. By 2009 the US space agency wants to develop a computational system that will be able to do 1,000 trillion calculations per second. And by 2012 it hopes to have boosted the power of this machine to 10 petaflops, to help with modelling and simulation. NASA's Advanced Supercomputing Division is calling the new project Pleiades, and it will be installed at the Ames Research Center in California, the site of its current supercomputer, Columbia, pictured here. The new computer would put NASA on the list of the top five fastest number crunchers in the world.

NASA, Intel, SGI Plan to 'Soup Up' Supercomputer

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency's supercomputer performance and capacity.

NASA, Intel, SGI Plan to 'Soup Up' Supercomputer

May 7, 2008 -- NASA, Intel Corp., and SGI today announced the signing of an agreement establishing intentions to collaborate on significantly increasing the space agency’s supercomputer performance and capacity.

Plan sponsors face tougher standards as 401(k) audit season starts

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2008--July is vacation time for many executives, but a busy time for 401k plan sponsors, who face a July 31st deadline for submitting an audited 401k plan financial statement with their Form 5500 to the federal government. This year, they’ll be busier than ever. Auditors will be asking more questions and requesting more documentation because new, stricter audit standards, known as the “risk assessment standards,� now are effective for employee benefit plan audits for periods beginning on or after Dec. 15, 2006. This year, auditors are required to look at the plan sponsor as well as the plan, and the audit process will last longer and demand more management time.

Send Your Name to the Moon on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Lro_trailer NASA is taking names to send to the moon on a microchip on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, slatted to launch this fall. LRO, built at NASA Goddard in Maryland, is set to be NASA's first major mission as America returns to the moon. NASA links to a website with the press release and a 30-second video of two young guys in an office. 20 bonus points for attempting to use humor (keep it up NASA) and reach out to an 18+ audience. It may not be their best work, but we'll take anything at this point. (Hint: next time get someone else to do the soundtrack.) The person who dared to get this through should still be commended. Now do more.

NASA supercomputer to get boost from Intel, SGI

NASA supercomputerIntel, SGI, and NASA have announced a project that aims to produce a dramatic increase in the space agency's supercomputing capacity.

SGI breakthrough technology empowers genome centre research around the world

30 April 2008 As scientists seek to accelerate sequencing genomes of varied arrays of organisms from fish parasites to cancer cells in an effort to determine causes and cures of diseases that plague mankind, breakthrough technology from SGI is powering research in genome centres around the world. Institutions such as the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, the Malaysia Genome Institute in Selangor and the China National Human Genome Center in Shanghai, have turned to SGI high-performance computing and storage solutions to create an optimal work flow for faster time to discovery.

SGI to Supply NASA's Next Major Supercomputer

SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- NASA has chosen SGI (Nasdaq: SGIC) to supply its next major supercomputer, a 20,480-core SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE system, after a competitive evaluation the space agency launched last year.

NASA ditches Itanic for new Xeon-based SGI giant

The two organizations announced today that SGI will build a whopping 20,480-core system for NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. The giant will run on four-core versions of Intel's Xeon chip and should reach peak performance of 245 Teraflops, which would make it one of the fastest computers in the world. The system, centered around SGI's Altix ICE hardware, will also boast - gulp - 20,800 GB of memory and 450TB of storage.

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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has a scoop on the end of its Robotic Arm. A motor-driven rasp can be lowered at an angle through a small opening in the bottom of the scoop to aid in gathering shavings of hard-frozen material. In this image, Lori Shiraishi, an engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, inspects the scoop while the spacecraft was being assembled and tested before its Aug. 4, 2007, launch. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin

Intel, SGI to build 10 PetaFLOPS supercomputer at NASA; Pleiades

It wasn't long ago we told you about how Intel had snatched one of AMD's most important partners, Cray, and now it has slapped AMD's already torn face another time. Intel and SGI has announced that the two of them will design and build two supercomputers for NASA. One sporting a capacity of 1 PetaFLOPS, which will be ready in 2009, and a second system with a capacity of 10 PetaFLOPS in 2012. The supercomputer will be built at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, in California.

NASA Awards Information Management and Communications Support Contract

Contact: Sonja Alexander, NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-1761, sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov, or Candrea Thomas, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Fla., +1-321-867-2468, candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov

NASA Gives Go for Space Shuttle Launch on May 31

Contact: Katherine Trinidad of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-3749, katherine.trinidad@nasa.gov; or Candrea Thomas of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, +1-321-867-2468, candrea.k.thomas@nasa.gov

NASA Extends Space Station Contract With ARES Corp.

Contact: Michael Curie of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202- 358-4715, michael.curie@nasa.gov, or Nicole Cloutier-Lemasters of NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-5111, nicole.cloutier- 1@nasa.gov

NASA Awards Marshall Operations Support Services Contract

Contact: Sonja Alexander of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-1761, sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov; or Angela Storey of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., +1-256-544-0632, angela.d.storey@nasa.gov

NASA Awards USRA Contract for Science and Technology Support

Contact: Grey Hautaluoma of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1- 202-358-0668, grey.hautaluoma-1@nasa.gov; or Katherine K. Martin of NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, +1-216-433-2406, katherine.k.martin@nasa.gov

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