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Aeronautics

Optimizing Aircraft Performance for Enhanced Efficiency and Reduced Environmental Impact
Brandon M. Lowe Scale-Resolving Methods for Accurately Predicting the Aerodynamics of In-Flight Icing
David A. Craig Penner Enabling Sky-High Commutes: Simulating NASA’s Tilt-Wing Air Taxi Concept
David Garcia Perez Scale-Resolving Simulations for Jet Noise Prediction
Olivia Martin Supercomputing in Supersonics: Analyzing Noise Predictions from High-Speed Aircraft
Marian Nemec Parallel Geometry-Based Mesh Adaptation for Supersonic Jet Acoustic Analysis
Chase Ashby

Human Space Exploration

Reliable Thermal Protection Systems for Planetary Missions
Savio Poovathingal Analyzing the Artemis I Launch Environment with Multiphase CFD
Chris DeGrendele SpaceX Starship Hot Staging - From Concept to Flight
Jason Liu Decoding Martian Dust: Brownout Simulations of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter
Patricia Ventura Diaz Coupled Simulations of Propellant and Vehicle Dynamics Over Extreme Duration Time Scales
Marco Sansone

Our Planet

Future-Proof Performance Portability for Weather and Climate Models
Florian Deconinck Machine Learning Enhancements to NASA Weather and Climate Modeling
Katherine H. Breen AI Foundation Models for Science
Manil Maskey High-Resolution Land Hydrology Modeling at NASA
Jim Geiger Forecasting Extreme Weather at Local Scales with the Global NASA GEOS Model
Gary Partyka Prithvi WxC: Foundation Model for Weather and Climate
Sujit Roy Foundation Models for Generalist Geospatial Artificial Intelligence
Amy Lin

Supercomputing

NASA-GPT: Searching the Entire NASA Technical Reports Server Using AI
Derek Dalle NASA’s OCSDO: Creating a Culture of Innovation and Collaboration
Andrew Mitchell Data-Driven Movies from the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio
AJ Christensen NASA's Newest Hybrid-Chip Systems
Reid Ormseth, Brian Roth Inspire – Next-Generation HPC at NASA Goddard
Robert Budden, Jonathan Mills HEC: Meeting Today’s Most Challenging Problems and Preparing for the Future
William Thigpen

The Universe

Solar Corona Live! Predicting the 2024 Eclipse in Real Time
Ronald Caplan To Infinity and Beyond! NASA Plunges into a Black Hole
Jeremy Schnittman Forecasting Space Weather Using Machine Learning
Spyros Kasapis Unveiling Neutron Stars: Simulations and AI Insights into Cosmic Emissions
Constantinos Kalapotharakos, Greg Olmschenk The Sun in Action! 3D Realistic Modeling from Tiny to Large Scales
Irina Kitiashvili

NASA 101

Applying for NASA Supercomputing Internships
Laura Carriere How NASA Uses Filmmaking Tools for Scientific Data Visualization
AJ Christensen Introduction to NASA and Early Career Pathways
Matt Bruzek Computational Methods for Evaluating Transonic Aircraft Buffet
Daniel Maldonado Supercomputing in Supersonics: Quiet Supersonic Flight
Marian Nemec Becoming a NASA Intern and Exploring the World of CFD Simulations
Patricia Ventura Diaz How NASA Manages User Access Using Arbiter2
Dave Chau Managing and Patching Multiple Architectures at NASA
Don Story Designing Ansible for Large Scale Environments
Alex Pelkey

HEC: Meeting Today’s Most Challenging Problems and Preparing for the Future

Supercomputing

The remodeled visualization lab at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility, showing the new 300-square-foot hyperwall that contains over a billion pixels. — The remodeled visualization lab at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility, showing the new 300-square-foot hyperwall that contains over a billion pixels. The renovation involved significant changes to accommodate the new hyperwall, including removing the raised floor, increasing the floor-to-ceiling height by two feet, and installing a new ceiling. Chris Tanner, NASA/Ames

High-End Computing at NASA is changing to provide users with a robust environment optimized to push the boundaries of scientific and engineering discovery. NASA's challenging mission—to expand human presence in space, increase understanding of the universe and the Earth within it, and drive efficient and sustainable aviation—requires the agency to innovatively apply and extend humankind's most advanced capabilities, technologies, and knowledge. The High-End Computing (HEC) Portfolio provides a suite of such powerful leading-edge tools to support all of the agency’s programmatic Mission Directorates—Aeronautics Research, Exploration Systems Development, Science, Space Operations, and Space Technology. Additionally, HEC supports the NASA Engineering and Safety Center (NESC). In 2024, HEC has procured systems to double its GPU capability and deployed a new facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center that will house its next-generation CPU system.

High-end computing is an essential, powerful tool that enables NASA to meet its challenging mission driving advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality, and stewardship of Earth.
William Thigpen,
NASA Ames Research Center

Quick Facts

In the last year, HEC deployed its latest hyperwall at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at Ames Research Center, with 128 4K screens –– providing a 300-square-foot display with over a billion pixels to help researchers display, analyze, and study high-dimensional datasets.
HEC has also continued expanding NASA’s Modular Supercomputing Facility at NAS with a second compute module that has three megawatts of capability, furthering the agency’s path to energy-efficient computing.
The installation of a 350-node NVIDIA GH200 system at NAS doubled the facility’s GPU capabilities, providing users access to new, more powerful computing resources.
HEC staff have also made numerous operational improvements to fortify stability and reliability in the compute environment, helping to ensure that its science and engineering users can continue to meet their mission milestones.

Researchers

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