Re-creating Earth's Oceans Inside a Supercomputer
Using complex computer models and the Pleiades supercomputer, scientists are taking a closer look at Earth's oceans and sea-ice to understand more about how they work and why they are changing.
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Giving Rocket Science a Boost
As NASA pours both its brainpower and supercomputing power into the new Space Launch System, NAS Division modeling and simulation experts remind us that it really is rocket science.
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NASA Earth Exchange: Meet Up in the NEX World
The NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) is a unique collaborative workspace where Earth scientists can join forces, make new discoveries, and share knowledge to gain a better understanding of our planet.
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Searching for Sister Planets
With the help of one of NASA's largest space telescopes and its most powerful supercomputer, scientists are analyzing observational data gathered from the Kepler mission spacecraft to search the skies for Earth's sister
planets.
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Cracking the Mysteries of Space Weather
Our planet is mostly protected from solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and other space weather events by a cocoon of magnetic field called the magnetosphere.
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Latest News & Highlights
NASA Supercomputer Helps 'Dig Out' Astronomical Treasures in Kepler Data
03.07.13 – Behind the scenes, NASA's most powerful supercomputer, Pleiades, crunches the Kepler mission data that enables scientists to quickly unearth transit signals and confirm the discovery of new planet candidates. Read More
NASA's Newest Supercomputer Makes Its Debut
02.22.13 – The Endeavour supercomputer is now in production. Endeavour, a shared-memory SGI UV 2000 system that replaces the legacy Columbia system, will help scientists and engineers solve large, highly complex computational problems for NASA missions. Read More
Journey to the Limits of Spacetime
02.13.13 – Using 3D simulations created on supercomputers at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division, the Texas Advanced Computing Center, and the National Institute for Computational Sciences, researchers are now able to visualize the forces around black holes with much greater detail. Read More
NASA's IRIS Spacecraft Scheduled to Launch in April
01.25.13 – NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission will use the Pleiades supercomputer to create and analyze 3D models of the sun based on data gathered by the orbiting observatory. Read More
Upcoming Events
HPC User Forum
April 29 - May 1, 2013Tucson, AZ
The HPC User Forum is a biannual meeting of HPC users in industry, government, and academia to share information and have open discussions on problems, new technology, best practices, and achievements in the high-end computing community. This meeting will focus on emerging trends in HPC, and will feature talks by aerospace, astrophysics, and astronomy experts from around the world.
Website: http://www.hpcuserforum.com/
SGIUG Conference 2013
April 30 - May 2, 2013San Diego, CA
The 11th Annual SGI User Group (SGIUG) Conference is an opportunity for SGI technical users to network, share challenges, learn technical solutions, and to provide SGI with feedback on existing and future products. Talks will include achievements and tutorials by users, as well as representatives from SGI and industry leaders.
Website: http://www.sgiug.org/index.html
