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Close to real lifeNASA's Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) facility for CFD modeling of highly complex aerodynamic flows employs as its basic hardware two Cray-2s, an ETA-10 Model Q, an Amdahl 5880 mainframe computer that furnishes both support processing and access to 300 Gbytes of disk storage, several minicomputers and superminicomputers, and a Thinking Machines 16,000-device 'connection machine' processor. NAS, which was the first supercomputer facility to standardize operating-system and communication software on all processors, has done important Space Shuttle aerodynamics simulations and will be critical to the configurational refinement of the National Aerospace Plane and its intergrated powerplant, which will involve complex, high temperature reactive gasdynamic computations.
Document ID
19880057879
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Peterson, Victor L.
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Bailey, F. Ron
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
July 1, 1988
Publication Information
Publication: Aerospace America
Volume: 26
ISSN: 0740-722X
Subject Category
Mathematical And Computer Sciences (General)
Accession Number
88A45106
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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