NASA Supercomputing Upgrades Overdue; Causing Mission Delays and Cybersecurity Risks
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NASA's supercomputing capabilities are outdated, oversubscribed, and causing delays to missions. Teams are buying their own infrastructure due to lack of access.
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There is confusion and lack of strategy around use of on-premises infrastructure vs cloud computing. Teams are hesitant to use cloud options.
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Security controls are often bypassed or not implemented on NASA's supercomputing systems, increasing cyber attack risk.
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NASA is not keeping pace with modern supercomputing technologies like GPUs and modern coding languages.
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NASA lacks inventory, procedures, and strategy for hardware/software lifecycle management across its high-end computing assets.