NASA@SC22 in Dallas

Everything you'd expect from NASA's exhibit at SC22: energy-efficient aircraft designs, advanced Earth climate forecasts, Artemis launchpad simulations, new discoveries about the universe, and more—all made possible by NASA high-end computing systems. The brilliant minds behind some of the agency's important research projects wowed the crowds with their latest science and engineering results and dazzling movies and images.

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All Aeronautics Our Planet Human Space Flight Supercomputing The Universe Featured Projects
Particle traces illustrating the flow topology on the suction side of the wing at an angle of attack of 21.5 degrees.
Aeronautics Wall-Modelled Large Eddy Simulations for Aircraft Certification-by-Analysis
Simulation of galaxies merge over time to make one of the FOGGIE galaxies.
The Universe Tracking the Fuel for Galaxy Growth
An excerpt from a visualization of data from the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2), a product of the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) modeling and data assimilation system.
Supercomputing Future Directions for NASA High-End Computing—Illustrated by an Earth Science Project
Volume rendering of a Space Launch System simulation for Artemis I.
Human Space Flight Multiphase Simulations of the Launch Environment at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Flowchart of the adopted data processing workflow in the Snow Simulation System.
Our Planet Improving Satellite-Based Snow Estimates with GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning
CFD simulations of density gradient magnitude for an internally mixed two-stream nozzle with an external plug, from a wall-modeled large eddy simulation performed with the LAVA solver.
Aeronautics Scale Resolving Jet Noise Simulations to Reduce Airport Noise
Simulation of the solar storm that occurred on July 14th, 2000, using the magnetohydrodynamics code utilized in CORHEL-AMCG.
The Universe Make Your Own Solar Storms!
Visualization of the flow of NASA's six-passenger tiltwing concept for urban air mobility, in hover or helicopter-mode.
Aeronautics Simulations for Designing Safe and Efficient Air Taxis
A visualization showing the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing concept aircraft in the free-air configuration.
Aeronautics Predicting Buffet Onset on the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing
The structure of the Prendergast magnetic field and its unstable eigenmode. Two panels show the field from different angles.
The Universe New Findings in Solar Magnetic Cycles and Waves in Stellar Interiors
Image comparing the wind tunnel test for the pressure signature of the X-59 model with a simulation.
Aeronautics Advancing NASA Software for Sonic Boom Prediction
Isometric view of the Block 1B Space Launch System vehicle simulated during booster separation, showing complex rocket plume interactions where the boosters are eight feet downstream of their attached positions.
Human Space Flight Building Aerodynamic Databases for NASA's Space Launch System
CFD simulations of new distributed electric propulsion system design iterations obtained with the LAVA flow solver.
Aeronautics NASA’s SUSAN Electrofan Aircraft: Designing the Future of Green Aviation
Side view of the Mars Advanced Supersonic Parachute Inflation Research Experiments (ASPIRE) fluid-structural interaction dynamics simulation showing relative flow speed on a cutting plane.
Human Space Flight Simulating Supersonic Parachute Inflation for Mars Landers
Visualization of a pseudo-Schlieren slice through the solid rocket booster (SRB) and RS-25 rocket centerlines during SRB igniter shock.
Human Space Flight Multiphase Simulations of the SLS Launch Environment
Apollo Lunar Module cratering simulations were performed using the Gas-Granular Flow Solver (GGFS) with the nozzle exit five meters above ground.
Human Space Flight Rocket Plume-Surface Interaction Simulations for Moon and Mars Landings
This visualization depicts ground-level ozone, which is harmful to both humans and the environment.
Our Planet High-Resolution Air Pollution Forecasting Using the NASA GEOS Model
Cross-section of the Sun ten minutes after flare heating, with the most energy directed downward.
The Universe Simulating Sunquakes: The Impact of Flares on the Sun
Visualization showing a heat transfer simulation on a fibrous felt-like material made from carbon/graphite using the Porous Microstructure Analysis (PuMA) software.
Supercomputing Microscale Modeling of NASA Thermal Protection Materials
Snapshot from a plume-soil interaction showing the iso-contours of volume fraction for a mature crater formed at a ratio of jet-to-ambient density of approximately 1.
Human Space Flight Analyzing Crater Formation During Descent on a Planetary Body with a Soil Surface
Monthly surface air temperature anomalies from a simulation of the GEOS global Earth system model, with carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations quadrupled from pre-industrial levels shown on the large global map.
Our Planet Using the NASA Chemistry Climate Model for Future Climate Simulations
The map shows the surface temperature of Venus 3 billion years ago from a simulation with a 310-meter-deep dynamic ocean, over a 50-orbit average.
The Universe Modeling Atmospheres with ROCKE-3D: Solar and Extrasolar Worlds
Image composite from Landsat 8 data captured September 22, 2014 shows a phytoplankton bloom (green and blue swirls) near the Pribilof Islands off the coast of Alaska in the Bering Sea.
Supercomputing Powering Synthetic Data Generation with HPC and Dask
This Digital Elevation Model (DEM) shows the Pantasma impact crater region in Nicaragua, Central America.
Supercomputing Making the Cloud Do What NASA Scientists Want
Oblique view of the vortex wake for a UH60 Blackhawk helicopter rotor in forward flight during dynamic stall.
Aeronautics A Decade of Discovery in Rotorcraft Simulation with NASA Supercomputing
James Fischer (third from the right) and Thomas Sterling (second from the right), both formerly of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, stand to the left of astronaut and NASA Associate Administrator Bob Cabana during the 2022 Space Technology Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Supercomputing Beowulf Cluster Computing Inducted into Space Technology Hall of Fame
Using artificial intelligence and machine learning at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation, a total of more than two million aggregated square kilometers has been predicted across Senegal for a period of 12 years.
Supercomputing Advancing Geospatial Data Structures on GPUs: Mapping the Earth at Fine Scale
Visible satellite image of the intense tropical cyclone Hagibis in the western Pacific Ocean from the Himarawi-8 satellite on 10 October 2019 at 06:00 UTC.
Our Planet The Evolution of GEOS as a Digital Twin for Earth System Science
A 456-atom supercell molecular structure of Allendeite (Sc4Zr3O12), which is used to calculate phonons.
The Universe A Quantum-Mechanics Driven Computational Framework for Cosmochemistry and Materials Modeling
The Aitken supercomputer is housed in a single module of NASA’s Modular Supercomputing Facility (MSF), which resides at Ames Research Center on a one-acre site with the infrastructure to support 16 modules.
Supercomputing HECC: Evolving to Meet Tomorrow’s Requirements
The image shows the results from a DSL-enabled simulation running FV3 and Held-Suarez physics on the GPU.
Supercomputing Domain-Specific Language (DSL) Adoption into NASA's Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Model Code
A flow visualization of NASAs Side-by-Side rotor.
Aeronautics Computational Analysis for the Design of NASA's Side-By-Side Concept Vehicle
Frame from an animation outlining the new Synchronized Multiple Time-lagged (SMT) approach to producing seasonal and subseasonal ensemble forecasts.
Our Planet An Innovative Strategy for Ensemble Seasonal Forecasts
Visualization of solar zonal activity.
The Universe Investigation of Solar Torsional Oscillations and Their Relation to Activity Cycles
Snapshots of solar-like simulations (in a nonrotating spherical shell), showing meridional slices of the radial velocity at a selected longitude for different cases of density stratification in the convection zone.
The Universe Modeling Dynamical Processes in the Solar Interior with 3D Global Simulations
Prism is a small Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) cluster at NASA Goddard dedicated to AI/ML workloads.
Supercomputing Will AI/ML Take Over HPC and the World?