Information technology Ames Research Center

ibm 7090 mainframe computer @ ames in 1961. smith defrance, ames founding director, second left.

ames home of nasa s large research , development divisions in advanced supercomputing, human factors, , artificial intelligence (intelligent systems). these research & development organizations support nasa s exploration efforts, continued operations of international space station, , space science , aeronautics work across nasa. center runs , maintains e root nameserver of dns system.

the intelligent systems division nasa s leading r&d division developing advanced intelligent software , systems of nasa mission directorates. provides software expertise aeronautics, space science missions, international space station, , crewed exploration vehicle (cev. first ai in space (deep space 1) developed code ti, mapgen software daily plans activities mars exploration rovers, same core reasoner used ensemble operate phoenix lander, , planning system international space station s solar arrays. integrated system health management international space station s control moment gyroscopes, collaborative systems semantic search tools, , robust software engineering round out scope of code ti s work.

the human systems integration division advances human-centered design , operations of complex aerospace systems through analysis, experimentation, , modelling of human performance , human-automation interaction make dramatic improvements in safety, efficiency , mission success . decades, human systems integration division has been on leading edge of human-centered aerospace research. division home on 100 researchers, contractors , administrative staff.

ames operates 1 of world′s fastest supercomputers, pleiades, further enhanced , scheduled reach 10 petaflops of processing power 2012.

in september 2009, ames launched nebula fast , powerful cloud computing platform handle nasa s massive data sets complied security requirements. innovative pilot uses open-source components, complies fisma , can scale government-sized demands while being extremely energy efficient. in july 2010, nasa cto chris c. kemp open sourced nova, technology behind nebula project in collaboration rackspace, launching openstack. openstack has subsequently become 1 of largest , fastest growing open source projects in history of computing, , of 2014 has been included in major distributions of linux including red hat, oracle, hp, suse, , canonical.