NASA Showcases Science at 2008 Supercomputing Conference MOFFETT
FIELD, Calif. – NASA will highlight some of its most inspiring
science and engineering achievements at the International
Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage,
and Analysis (SC08), at the Austin Convention Center, Austin,
Texas, Nov. 15–21, 2008. At NASA’s SC08 research exhibit,
scientists and engineers will be on hand to explain more than 40
projects supporting some of NASA’s most critical mission work —
all made possible by the agency’s powerful high-end computing
(HEC) resources. Featured are presentations about how NASA is
advancing the ability to predict tropical storms to help reduce
loss of lives and property, and working to design the thermal
protection system for America’s next-generation spacecraft, the
Orion crew exploration vehicle (CEV). The exhibit also
highlights innovative computational methods to reduce the sound
from jet engines — a source of noise pollution for the public
and potentially hazardous oper