Aug 27 1980
From The Space Library
ARC announced selection of Burroughs Corporation and Control Data Corporation to study system design for its supercomputer, the numerical aerodynamic simulator, that would aid in developing and testing new designs for aircraft and other flight vehicles and perform research in areas of fluid flow such as meteorology, gas dynamics, and computational chemistry. The two parallel fixed-price studies, each valued at $350,000, should produce a data processor 40 times faster and with a high-speed memory 60 times larger than those presently in use.
The new computer would use fluid-flow equations for continuous calculation of three-dimensional air flows simultaneously at thousands of points; it could simulate conditions of wind-tunnel testing far more cheaply than actual model tests. It would do a billion operations per second, using a data base of 40 billion words, and could handle 100 users simultaneously. ARC, with project responsibility for the numerical simulator, had been working on the system since 1975. (ARC Release 80-71; NASA Release 80-135)
NASA announced selection of McDonnell Douglas Technical Services Company to negotiate a cost-plus-award-fee contract to support JSC STS engineering and operations from October 1980 through September 1986. The contract, divided into three increments, would cover technical and analytical support in engineering-systems analyses, flight design, flight operations, and management-systems support. Contractor estimate of the cost for the first two year increment, plus a firm two-year option, would be about $25 million. JSC would manage the contract. (JSC Release 80-053; NASA Release 80-136)
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