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NASA needs your help to turbocharge its supercomputer
It's not exactly a secret that parts of the US government run on painfully antiquated hardware that can cost billions to maintain. Decades-old code might do the trick for generating a tax return, but it isn't exactly ideal when you're a NASA research lab tasked with modeling complex fluid dynamics and designing the next generation of experimental aircraft. That's why the space agency recently announced the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge (HPFCC) which hopes to find a few talented coders who can make the agency's design software run ten to 10,000 times faster on its Pleiades supercomputer without sacrificing accuracy.
