Ames Research Center
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The Ames Research Center, also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Co
Aerial view of Moffett Field and Ames Research Center in 1982
Hangar One, originally a US Navy airship hangar, in Moffett Field, California
IBM 7090 mainframe computer at Ames in 1961. Smith DeFrance, Ames' founding director, is second from the left.
One of the air intakes of the 80 by 120 foot wind tunnel (world's largest), located at NASA Ames Research Center
Pleiades (supercomputer)
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Pleiades is a petascale supercomputer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at NASA's Ames Research Center located at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California. It is maintained by NA
Anatomy of a Pleiades node, shown on display at the NASA Ames Exploration Center, in Mountain View, California
Pleiades supercomputer outside view
Pleiades Westmere-based racks. The addition of the Westmere and Nehalem nodes increased the computing capacity available on Pleiades by 170%.