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The code in question is called "FUN3D" and was first developed in the 1980s. It's still an important part of the agency's computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capability, and had its most recent release in September 2016.
The agency is now sponsoring a competition with the aim of getting it to go at least 10 times faster. If you can crank it up to ten thousand times faster – without any loss of accuracy – all the better.
Michael Hetle, program executive at NASA's Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP) explains that "some concepts are just so complex, it's difficult for even the fastest supercomputers to analyse these models in real time. Achieving a speed-up in this software by orders of magnitude hones the edge we need to advance our technology to the next level".
[Update: Original story title was taken directly from the referenced article; updated to remove condescension. --martyb]
(Score: 2) by number6x on Friday May 05 2017, @02:33PM
Hippy greybeards from the 1960's, possibly.
Greybeards from the 1980's didn't have any wars to protest. Grenada was over too quickly.
Besides, young people in the 1980's were too busy selling junk bonds, looking out for #1 and learning that 'greed is good'.
The 1980's was the era of young college republicans, greed, cocaine and born again salvation.