NASA Announces the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge

Faster Supercomputer!

For decades, NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD) has been responsible for developing canada goose cheap canada goose outlet jackets the technologies that put satellites into orbit, astronauts on the Moon, Canada Goose online and sent robotic missions to other planets. Unfortunately, after many years of supporting NASA missions, some of their machinery is getting on in years and is in need of an upgrade.

Consider the Pleiades supercomputer, the distributed memory machine that canada goose outlet store cheap canada goose uk uk is responsible for conducting modeling and simulations for NASA missions. Despite being one of the fastest supercomputers in the world, Pleiades will need to be upgraded in order to stay up to task in the years ahead. Hence why NASA has come together with TopCoder (and with the support of HeroX) to launch the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge (HPFCC).

With a prize purse of $55,000, NASA and TopCoder are canada goose uk shop seeking programmers buy canada goose jacket cheap and computer specialists to help them upgrade Pleiades so it can perform computations faster. canada goose outlet sale Specifically, they want to improve canada goose outlet new york city its FUN3D software so that flow analysis which previously took months can now be done in days or hours. In short, they want to speed up their supercomputers by a factor of 10 to 1000 while relying on its existing hardware, and without any decreases in accuracy.

The addition of Haswell processors in 2015 increased the theoretical peak processing capability of Pleiades from 4.5 petaflops to 5.3 petaflops. Credit: NASAThose hoping to enter need to be familiar with FUN3D software, which is used to calculate the nonlinear partial differential equations (aka. Navier Stokes equations) that are used for steady and unsteady flow computations. These include large eddy simulations Canada Goose Parka in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which are of particular importance when it comes to supersonic aircraft, space flight, and the development launch vehicles and planetary reentry systems.

NASA has partnered to launch this challenge with TopCoder, the world’s largest online community of designers, developers and data scientists. Since it was founded in 2001, this canada goose outlet black friday company has hosted countless canada goose jacket outlet online canada goose outlet toronto factory competitions (known as «single round matches», or SRMs) designed to foster better programming. They also host weekly competitions to stimulate developments in graphic design.

Overall, the HPFSCC will consist of two challenges the Ideation Challenge and the. For the Ideation Challenge (hosted by NASA), competitors must propose ideas that can help optimize the Pleiades source code. As they state, may include (but is not limited to) «exploiting algorithmic developments in such areas as grid adaptation, higher order methods and efficient solution techniques for high performance computing hardware.»

The computation of fluid dynamics is of particular importance when plotting space launches and reentry. Credit: NASA/JPL CaltechThe canada goose outlet nyc Architecture Challenge (hosted by TopCoder), is focused less on strategy and more on measurable improvements. As such, participants will be tasked with showing how to optimize processing in order to reduce the overall time and increase the efficiency of computing models. Ideally, says TopCoder, this would include «algorithm optimization of the existing code base, inter node dispatch optimization, or a combination of the two.»

NASA is providing $20,000 in prizes for the Ideation challenge, with $10,000 Canada Goose Jackets awarded for first place, and two runner up awards of $5000 each. TopCoder, meanwhile, is offering $35,000 for the Architecture challenge a top prize of $15,000 for first canada goose outlet parka place, canada goose black friday sale $10,000 for second place, with $10,000 set canada goose aside for the Qualified Improvement Candidate Prize Pool.

The competition will remain open to submissions until June 29th, 2017, canada goose outlet at canada goose outlet which point, the judging will commence. This will wrap up on August 7th, and the winners of both https://www.georg-godorr.de competitions will be announced on August 9th. So if you are a coder, computer engineer, or someone familiar with FUN3D software, be sure to head on over to canada goose outlet online HeroX and accept the challenge!

Human space exploration continues to advance, with missions planned for the Moon, Mars, and beyond. With an ever expanding presence in space and new challenges awaiting us, it is necessary that we have the right tools to make it all happen. By leveraging improvements in computer programming, we can ensure that one of the most important aspects of mission planning remains up to task!

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