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USA National Center for Supercomputing Applications contributes to planetarium shows

Source: NCSA

NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Laboratory (http://avl.ncsa.uiuc.edu/) led by Donna Cox, contributed animations to a new space show that debuted at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium (http:// www.adlerplanetarium.org/)on Friday, March 6 2009. “IBEX: Search for the Edge of the Solar System” focuses on NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ibex/) which set out in the fall of 2008 on a two-year mission to map the boundaries of our solar system by studying the interaction of hot solar winds with the cold of deep space. Read the article

NSF’s Largest Supercomputer in Full Production Mode

Source: NICS

The world’s fastest academic supercomputer is now up and running. Kraken, a Cray XT5 system located at the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS), managed by the University of Tennessee (UT) and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), promises to push the limits of simulation science. Read the full news

Antarctic Ice Velocity Data Now Available through A-CAP

Source: NSIDC

The NSIDC Antarctic Cryosphere Access Portal (A-CAP) now contains VELMAP Antarctic ice flow velocity data. The goal of VELMAP is to compile ice flow velocity for the whole Antarctic continent. Read the full news

Cosmological Simulations Key To Understanding The Universe

Source: Science Daily

Tiziana Di Matteo, associate professor of physics at Carnegie Mellon University is harnessing the power of supercomputing to recreate how galaxies are born, how they develop over time and, ultimately, how they collapse. Read the news