New Partnerships Set to Reshape NASA Science Modeling

NASA is joining with leading university and government researchers to develop software frameworks that will enable more realistic simulations of natural phenomena and interpretation of vast quantities of observational data on high-end computers.

Over the next three years, the agency will pay out $22.8 million to 11 investigation teams attacking challenges as diverse as:

· making it possible for many climate and weather modeling groups to share and reuse each other's software,
· creating multi-year earthquake forecasts,
· predicting space weather using real-time observations, and
· uncovering the workings of gamma-ray bursts.

"These agreements represent a major investment in development of the software infrastructure that is needed to support high-end computing applications in the Earth and space sciences," said Dr. Richard Rood, Acting Chief, Earth and Space Data Computing Division at Goddard. "The applications are at the forefront of scientific discovery through computational experimentation and also sit at the foundation of the software codes used to assess climate change."

For more information on the researchers partnership, go to: http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20020419scimodel.html