Pleiades supercomputer

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The Pleiades supercomputer is a high-performance computing system used by NASA for large-scale simulations and scientific research in fields such as aeronautics, space exploration, and climate modeling.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf supercomputer
architecture distributed-memory cluster
x86-64
basedOn SGI Altix ICE architecture
commissionedBy NASA Ames Research Center
country United States
domain Earth science
aeronautics
climate science
computational engineering
computational physics
space science
interconnect InfiniBand
locatedIn Moffett Field, California
NASA Ames Research Center
maintainedBy NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
namedAfter Pleiades star cluster
operator NASA
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
owner NASA
partOf NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility
status operational
supports MPI parallel programming
large-scale parallel jobs
long-running simulations
petabyte-scale data workloads
usedBy NASA researchers
external research partners
usedFor Earth science modeling
aeronautics research
aircraft design simulations
astrophysics simulations
climate modeling
computational fluid dynamics
data analysis for space missions
heliophysics simulations
high-performance computing
large-scale simulations
launch vehicle simulations
mission planning analysis
noise and aeroacoustics studies
planetary science simulations
reentry and aerothermal simulations
scientific research
space exploration research
spacecraft design simulations
turbulence modeling
weather and climate prediction experiments
vendor SGI

Referenced by (3)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Ames Research Center
hasFacility
Kalpana Chawla ("NASA’s Supercomputer ‘Kalpana’")
hasHonorificName
Pleiades ("NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility")
partOf

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