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BBC: NASA Powers Up with Supercomputer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 6, 2004

[ Thanks to Iain
Gray
for this link. ]

“US space agency NASA is to get a massive supercomputing boost
to help get its shuttle missions back in action after the 2003
shuttle disaster.

“Project Columbia, a collaboration with two technology giants,
will mean Nasa’s computing power will be ramped up by 10 times to
do complex simulations.

“It will be one of the world’s biggest Linux-based
supercomputers…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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