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NASA has dedicated its new Altix supercomputer KC to the memory of India-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, one of the seven crew members aboard the space shuttle Columbia which disintegrated mid-air in February last year.
Naming the new supercomputer 8216;Kalpana8217; follows a long tradition at NASA8217;s Ames Research Centre of calling its new supercomputers after pioneers in the supercomputer industry or individuals who have significantly contributed to research at the aircraft research laboratory.
During an interview in 1995, Chawla predicted that her exposure to a wide variety of computer systems at Ames would be especially useful to her as an astronaut. 8212;PTI
