Press Room
NASA's out-of-this-world science, engineering, and technology demonstrations at SC16 provide the fuel for launching your news items, blog posts, interviews, and feature articles.
Press Releases and Announcements
- November 15. 2016
- NASA Private Cloud Wins HPCwire Award at SC16
- November 14, 2016
- NASA Ames Research Center, “Pleiades,” Supercomputer from SGI Ranks #13 on TOP500
- November 10, 2016
- NASA Takes Byte Out of Annual Supercomputing Conference
- November 2, 2016
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New Podcast Highlights Role of Supercomputing for Design of Next-Gen Air and Space Vehicles
NASA award-winning aerospace engineer Stuart Rogers provides insight into his important work to combine complex simulations and wind tunnel results for designing next-generation aircraft and spacecraft. The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility's Pleiades supercomputer is key to the process. Listen to podcast
Media Backgrounders
Our short media backgrounders on featured NASA demonstrations provide an introduction, quick facts, and pull quotes to use as a starting point for your own stories.
- Aeronautics – Improving the Flight Efficiency of Helicopters
Using complex computational fluid dynamics simulations, NASA researchers are studying the causes of dynamic stall during rotorcraft flight in an effort to create future designs that improve efficiency and safety. Get the story... 
- Our Planet – Building an Earth-Sized Chemistry Laboratory
With the world as their laboratory, scientists have run a high-resolution global simulation of meteorology and atmospheric chemistry that captures the shifting patterns of ozone and other chemical compounds affecting human health. Get the story... 
- Space Exploration – Predictive Modeling for NASA Entry, Descent, and Landing Missions
Revolutionary modeling and simulation techniques help engineers design every phase of complex planetary entry missions, helping ensure safe landings for NASA’s next-generation spacecraft. Get the story... 
- The Universe – Exploring the Sun’s Magnetic Field Through High-Res 3D Modeling
Using a combination of high-resolution global 3D models, scientific visualization, and supercomputers, researchers are gaining a deeper understanding of the sun’s magnetic field to predict the effects of space weather on Earth. Get the story...