Re: NASA gets SGI 2048-core Itanium 2 supercomputer

On Nov 26, 4:44 pm, koeh...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bob
Koehler) wrote:
In article <49f32980-721c-49bf-aada-1295efbce...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Neil Rieck <n.ri...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:



[...snip...]

NASA has transformed from the premier engineering organisation that
did some science on the side to a big bureaucracy that also does
engineering and science.

But almost everything we do at the Goddard Space Flight Center is
science. JPL does most of the deep space missions, GSFC does most
of the earth orbiting missions; every other NASA installation (JPL
is actually a contractor) has its specialty.

So why haven't you heard of the GSFC science missions? Because
the Hubble Space Telescope is the only one of them the media pays
any attention enough for its name to be recognised. Its NASA's
number one PR machine as well as one hell of a good science resource.


Thanks for that update. I forgot that there were NASA people hanging
out here.

p.s. So do you think it's too late for someone like a presidential
science advisor to get the USA back on track? In this light it would
be nice if we could get back to the 1960's.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/

.

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