Demonstrations
At SC16, researchers, engineers, and computer scientists from 6 NASA locations and several universities will present their findings over the past year. Details from 40 presentations—covering next-generation aviation, climate research, space exploration, cosmic origins, and much more—are featured below, along with spectacular images and videos.
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Benjamin Auer
Global, High-Resolution Chemistry in GEOS-5 B Michael Barad
Computational Aeroacoustics for Green Aviation Propulsion Technology Ben Bledsoe
DeMISTifying Climate Informatics: Visualizing Tomorrow's Forecasts Today with Web World Wind C Jordan Caraballo-Vega
Building Cost-Effective 100-Gbps Firewalls for HPC Neal Chaderjian
New Insights into Dynamic Stall for High Performance Helicopters Thomas Clune
Testing Code at Exascale with Only a Workstation Gary Coleman
The Rewards of HPC: Experiments in Turbulence D Marie Denison
High-Fidelity Aeroelastic Simulations of Future Airplane Concepts Daniel Duffy
Extreme Weather, Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing F Romain Fièvet
Advancing the Development of Hypersonic Transportation G Sangram Ganguly
Supporting Petabyte-Scale Science on the NASA Earth Exchange H Christopher Hill
The Tempestuous Global Ocean Circulation J James Jensen
CFD Support for Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Design Henry Jin
Improving Productivity at NASA's Largest Supercomputing Center William Jones
Improving Prediction of Buffet Forces for Design of the Space Launch System K Mehdi Khorrami
Toward Quieter Skies: New Tools to Predict and Mitigate Airframe Noise Cetin Kiris
Numerical Simulation of Aircraft Noise Aaron Knister
Great Scott! 1.21 Megawatts and 88 Gigabytes per Second: Time Travel with a Time Series Database L Henry Lee
Building CFD-Based Aerodynamic Databases for the Space Launch System Carey Legett
Modeling Nanoscale Light Scattering by the Lunar Regolith Peter Liever
Improving Fidelity of Launch Vehicle Liftoff Acoustic Simulations M Nagi Mansour
From Tomography to Material Properties of Thermal Protection Systems Ryan McDaniel
How NASA's Astronauts will Survive Earth Re-Entry from Deep Space Jonathan Mills
OpenStack Science Cloud: A Complementary Resource to HPC N Mohammad Zubair & Eric Nielsen
An Optimized Multicolor Point-Implicit Solver for Unstructured Grid Applications on GPUs O Bryan O'Gorman
Explorations at the Frontier of Quantum Computing P Craig Pelissier
Advanced Computing Experiences from Hardware Accelerators to Quantum Computing William Putman
Exploring Our Warming World in 5K Ultra HD S Ellen Salmon
To Better Understand Climate Effects of Mega-Eruptions, Just Add Water Antonia Savcheva
Data-Constrained Simulation of Coronal Mass Ejection Propagation Shayna Skolnik
Immersive Earth Science: Exploring Climate Data with Virtual Reality Carrie Spear
Data Analytics and Storage System (DASS)-Mixing POSIX and Hadoop Architectures Robert Stein
Simulating Solar Activity to Predict the Impact on Earth's Space Weather Andrey Stejko
Exploring the Sun through High-Resolution Modeling T William Thigpen
NASA's High-End Computing Capability: It's Electra-fying! Matthew Thompson
Improving the Scalability of the GEOS-5 Earth System Model V Garrison Vaughan
Bursting into Public Clouds for High-Performance Analytics W Phil Webster
Climate Analytics-as-a-Service: Making Climate Science Data Accessible Alan Wray
Highly Parallel Radiative Transfer in Stellar Simulations Michael Wright
Predictive Modeling for NASA Entry, Descent, and Landing Missions Z Mohammad Zubair & Eric Nielsen
An Optimized Multicolor Point-Implicit Solver for Unstructured Grid Applications on GPUs
Global, High-Resolution Chemistry in GEOS-5 B Michael Barad
Computational Aeroacoustics for Green Aviation Propulsion Technology Ben Bledsoe
DeMISTifying Climate Informatics: Visualizing Tomorrow's Forecasts Today with Web World Wind C Jordan Caraballo-Vega
Building Cost-Effective 100-Gbps Firewalls for HPC Neal Chaderjian
New Insights into Dynamic Stall for High Performance Helicopters Thomas Clune
Testing Code at Exascale with Only a Workstation Gary Coleman
The Rewards of HPC: Experiments in Turbulence D Marie Denison
High-Fidelity Aeroelastic Simulations of Future Airplane Concepts Daniel Duffy
Extreme Weather, Machine Learning, and High-Performance Computing F Romain Fièvet
Advancing the Development of Hypersonic Transportation G Sangram Ganguly
Supporting Petabyte-Scale Science on the NASA Earth Exchange H Christopher Hill
The Tempestuous Global Ocean Circulation J James Jensen
CFD Support for Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Design Henry Jin
Improving Productivity at NASA's Largest Supercomputing Center William Jones
Improving Prediction of Buffet Forces for Design of the Space Launch System K Mehdi Khorrami
Toward Quieter Skies: New Tools to Predict and Mitigate Airframe Noise Cetin Kiris
Numerical Simulation of Aircraft Noise Aaron Knister
Great Scott! 1.21 Megawatts and 88 Gigabytes per Second: Time Travel with a Time Series Database L Henry Lee
Building CFD-Based Aerodynamic Databases for the Space Launch System Carey Legett
Modeling Nanoscale Light Scattering by the Lunar Regolith Peter Liever
Improving Fidelity of Launch Vehicle Liftoff Acoustic Simulations M Nagi Mansour
From Tomography to Material Properties of Thermal Protection Systems Ryan McDaniel
How NASA's Astronauts will Survive Earth Re-Entry from Deep Space Jonathan Mills
OpenStack Science Cloud: A Complementary Resource to HPC N Mohammad Zubair & Eric Nielsen
An Optimized Multicolor Point-Implicit Solver for Unstructured Grid Applications on GPUs O Bryan O'Gorman
Explorations at the Frontier of Quantum Computing P Craig Pelissier
Advanced Computing Experiences from Hardware Accelerators to Quantum Computing William Putman
Exploring Our Warming World in 5K Ultra HD S Ellen Salmon
To Better Understand Climate Effects of Mega-Eruptions, Just Add Water Antonia Savcheva
Data-Constrained Simulation of Coronal Mass Ejection Propagation Shayna Skolnik
Immersive Earth Science: Exploring Climate Data with Virtual Reality Carrie Spear
Data Analytics and Storage System (DASS)-Mixing POSIX and Hadoop Architectures Robert Stein
Simulating Solar Activity to Predict the Impact on Earth's Space Weather Andrey Stejko
Exploring the Sun through High-Resolution Modeling T William Thigpen
NASA's High-End Computing Capability: It's Electra-fying! Matthew Thompson
Improving the Scalability of the GEOS-5 Earth System Model V Garrison Vaughan
Bursting into Public Clouds for High-Performance Analytics W Phil Webster
Climate Analytics-as-a-Service: Making Climate Science Data Accessible Alan Wray
Highly Parallel Radiative Transfer in Stellar Simulations Michael Wright
Predictive Modeling for NASA Entry, Descent, and Landing Missions Z Mohammad Zubair & Eric Nielsen
An Optimized Multicolor Point-Implicit Solver for Unstructured Grid Applications on GPUs