NASA Wants Your Code! Boost Supercomputer Software Speed and Win $55,000

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NASA Wants Your Code! Boost Supercomputer Software Speed and Win $55,000:

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If you’re a computer programmer with some time on your hands, NASA needs you!

The agency said it wants to streamline a piece of software used for aviation research and run on one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. To do so, NASA has teamed up with HeroX and Topcoder to launch the High Performance Fast Computing Challenge (HPFCC), according to a statement.

The challenge, should you choose to accept it entails getting NASA’s FUN3D design software to run faster — 10 to 10,000 times faster, in fact. [Images: NASA’s Vision of Future Air Travel]

This may sound like a heady task, but NASA officials said the speed jump could be accomplished by identifying a coding bottleneck or simply by shaving milliseconds off of one of the software’s many subroutines by making it more efficient.

“This is the ultimate ‘geek’ dream assignment,” said Doug Rohn, director of NASA’s Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP), in the statement. “Helping NASA speed up its software to help advance our aviation research is a win-win for all.”

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