NASA Selects IBM for Next-Generation Supercomputer Applications

U.S. Newswire, June, 2007

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS

Contact: David E. Steitz of Headquarters, Washington, 1-202-358- 1730, or Michael Mewhinney of the Ames Research Center, 1-650-604- 3937, both of NASA; or Michael Corrado of IBM Media Relations Supercomputing, 1-914-766-4635

MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., June 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Wednesday, NASA and IBM, Armonk, N.Y., announced the agency has selected an IBM System p575 supercomputer for evaluating next- generation technology to meet the agency's future supercomputing requirements. Supercomputers play a critical role in many NASA missions, including new space vehicle design, global climate studies and astrophysics research.

The IBM system is being installed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at the Ames Research...

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