Article: Powered by Silicon Graphics, Pleiades Supercomputer Fuels NASA's Journey to Moon, Then Mars.

Ranked No. 3 in the World, New SGI Altix ICE System Lets Researchers Attack Problems Without Compromises

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Supercomputing 2008, Booth 1009 -- With its sights set on colonizing the moon and eventually sending astronauts to Mars, NASA is calling on researchers to solve some of the most complex science and engineering problems in history.

Key to that effort is Pleiades, the world's third fastest supercomputer, installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. The 51,200-core SGI(R) Altix(R) ICE 8200EX system from Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) is ...

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