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 |
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| instanceOf |
supercomputer
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| architecture |
distributed-memory cluster
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x86-64 → |
| basedOn |
SGI Altix ICE architecture
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| commissionedBy |
NASA Ames Research Center
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| country |
United States
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| domain |
Earth science
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aeronautics → climate science → computational engineering → computational physics → space science → |
| interconnect |
InfiniBand
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| locatedIn |
Moffett Field, California
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NASA Ames Research Center → |
| maintainedBy |
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
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| namedAfter |
Pleiades star cluster
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| operator |
NASA
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NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division → |
| owner |
NASA
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| partOf |
NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility
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| status |
operational
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| supports |
MPI parallel programming
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large-scale parallel jobs → long-running simulations → petabyte-scale data workloads → |
| usedBy |
NASA researchers
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external research partners → |
| usedFor |
Earth science modeling
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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
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Referenced by (3)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Ames Research Center
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hasFacility |
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Kalpana Chawla
("NASA’s Supercomputer ‘Kalpana’")
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hasHonorificName |
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Pleiades
("NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility")
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partOf |