News & Features 2025
NASA Supercomputers Take on Life Near Greenland’s Most Active Glacier
Runoff from Greenland’s ice sheet is kicking nutrients up from the ocean depths and boosting phytoplankton growth, a new NASA-supported study has found. Using supercomputers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley and the ECCO-Darwin model, the researchers calculated that deepwater nutrients buoyed upward by glacial runoff would be sufficient to boost summertime phytoplankton growth by 15 to 40% in the study area.
New Grace Hopper Nodes Double the Power of NASA's Cabeus Supercomputer
As part of the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division’s goal to provide the NASA with the computing power needed to support the agency’s missions and programs, 350 NVIDIA Grace Hopper nodes were added to the Cabeus supercomputer, providing more than 13 petaflops of computing power and more than doubling Cabeus’ total peak capability.
NASA Supercomputer Finds Billions of Comets Mimicking the Milky Way’s Shape
Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Now, using NASA's powerful Pleiades supercomputer, scientists have discovered yet another spiral structure on the edge of our solar system.
Read more about how the Pleaides supercomputer enabled discovery of a new spiral structure.
NAS 2024 Wrap-Up
As we start the new year, take some time to check out these intriguing NASA projects—all led by experts in the NAS Division in 2024. These 12 endeavors focus on improving life on Earth and on learning more about how things work in the universe! All were presented last November at SC24, the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, in Atlanta, Georgia.
Read more about 12 NAS Division science and engineering projects.
