Supporting Big Data Analytics at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division
Piyush Mehrotra, L. Harper Pryor
NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division, NASA Ames, Moffett Field CA 94035
NASA is the curator and host for large quantities of observation and simulation data. By some estimates, NASA’s approximately 100 current active missions, observing Earth, the solar system and deep space, produce more than 50 PBs of data annually. Similarly, large-scale simulations run on its supercomputers are starting to produce terabytes and sometimes petabytes of data from each run.
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