NASA High-End Computing: Feature Stories

07.23.24 - Watch Carbon Dioxide Move Through Earth’s Atmosphere: IA global map shows concentrations of carbon dioxide as the gas moved through Earth’s atmosphere from January through March 2020, driven by wind patterns and atmospheric circulation. The map was created by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio using a model called GEOS, short for the Goddard Earth Observing System. GEOS is a high-resolution weather model, powered by supercomputers run by NASA High-End Computing.

07.18.24 - NASA Ames Welcomes New Zealand Prime Minister, Celebrates Partnership: On July 12, NASA Ames Research Center welcomed the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Christopher Luxon, who was hosted in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility and briefed on Ames' core competences and NASA’s and New Zealand’s collaborative efforts to study Earth’s interconnected systems. The prime minister visited the Pleiades and Cabeus supercomputers and examined the capabilities of the facility’s upgraded hyperwall.

07.01.24 - NASA’s Upgraded Hyperwall Offers Improved Data Visualization: In May, the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, celebrated the newest generation of its hyperwall system, a wall of LCD screens that display supercomputer-scale visualizations of the very large datasets produced by NASA supercomputers and instruments.

06.25.24 - Evaluating Proposed Next-Generation Satellite Instruments: Nikki Privé: Continuing our occasional series, this NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) User Spotlight shines on Dr. Nikki Privé. The quasi-native Marylander currently works as a senior research scientist in the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.

06.13.24 - GEOS Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Forecast System Predicts Events in Asia, Africa, and Tropics: The GEOS S2S system predicted events as diverse as the Mongolia Dzud, a Sudan Heat Wave, and the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) in the tropics. GEOS S2S runs at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).

05.22.24 - NASA and IBM Research Apply AI to Weather and Climate: A collaboration involving NASA and IBM Research has led to the development of a new artificial intelligence (AI) foundation model for weather and climate: Prithvi-weather-climate (Prithvi is the Sanskrit name for Earth). Participants include NASA High-End Computing’s NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) and NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Facility.

05.22.24 - Solution to Ancient Astronomy Puzzle to Aid Solar Storm Warnings: In calculations leveraging NASA's Pleiades supercomputer, an international research team lead by the University of Edinburgh discovered that the dynamo process generating the Sun's magnetic field originates from a relatively close 20,000 miles below the surface.

05.07.24 - Defending the Planet: How NASA Supercomputers Capture Hypothetical Asteroid Impacts: Supporting the NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office, scientists in the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division's Computational Aerosciences Branch have kept their eyes close to Earth recently—focusing on what might occur if our planet should someday get hit by an asteroid, and what we might be able to do to mitigate the damage.

05.06.24 - New NASA Black Hole Visualization Takes Viewers Beyond the Brink: Ever wonder what happens when you fall into a black hole? Now, thanks to a new, immersive visualization produced on the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) Discover supercomputer, viewers can plunge into the event horizon, a black hole’s point of no return.

03.04.24 - Supercomputer Speeds Computations for NASA Research Projects: A new graphics processing unit (GPU)-based supercomputer has been added to the stable of NASA high-end computing resources operated at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility. Named Cabeus after a lunar crater near the Moon’s south pole, the system is already providing agency users with several petaflops of computational power and will increase our capability to run artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads that can benefit from GPU technology.

02.21.24 - Exploring Past and Future Tropical Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal with NASA High-End Computing: Leveraging NASA High-End Computing resources, a team of NASA and university scientists undertook a study of past and future tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal — some of the most devastating natural events on Earth.

02.14.24 - GMAO Science Snapshots Shine Light on El Niño and Sudden Stratospheric Warming: The NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) January 2024 El Niño seasonal forecast predicts a progressive cooling of sea surface temperatures heading into spring and continuing into early autumn while the GMAO numerical weather prediction model depicts a sudden stratospheric warning event in January 2024. GMAO forecasting systems run at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).

01.16.24 - TESS Researchers Discover Six-Planet System Using New Algorithms: An international group of scientists have recently uncovered a remarkable system of six exoplanets from data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Their years of planetary detective work—which began with light curve processing on the Pleiades supercomputer at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility—was detailed in a paper published in Nature.

01.04.24 - GEOS Model Outputs for Early Season Snowfall in the Northeast US: Model outputs from GEOS-FP 12-kilometer (km) and GEOS-Exp 4-km depict an early season snowfall in the mid-Atlantic and northeastern United States on December 11, 2023. GEOS models run at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS).

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