Helping Keep Astronauts Safe with Advanced Simulations, Visualizations
Cutting-edge simulations run on the Pleiades supercomputer help engineers shape the final configuration of the Orion launch abort vehicle, designed to keep astronauts safe during launch.
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A Hybrid Quadcopter for Longer Flights, Quieter Skies
High-fidelity simulations run on the Pleiades supercomputer are helping aeronautics engineers discover ways to make multi-rotor drones fly longer and quieter.
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Realistic Simulations Reveal Something New Under the Sun
A combination of supercomputers and visualization helped scientists make an important discovery about magnetic field activity taking place deep below the solar surface.
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Exploring the Ocean’s Depths with a New Hyperwall Visualization Tool
Earth scientists are using a new visualization toolbox on the NAS facility’s hyperwall to take a deeper dive into their high-resolution global ocean simulation.
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NASA Researchers Rock the World of Asteroid Simulation
Assessing potential damage from an asteroid strike and planning mitigation strategies is now faster and more accurate thanks to simulations and risk models run on NASA supercomputers.
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Latest News & Highlights
Lunar Swirl Features Reproduced by Modeling Solar Wind Standoff
04.26.18 – Researchers at the Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres and Cosmic Dust (IMPACT) at the University of Colorado Boulder, used NASA's Pleiades supercomputer to develop the first 3D simulations to disentangle the movement of ions and electrons as the solar wind interacts with lunar magnetic anomalies. The researchers used Pleiades and lunar satellite observations to show that solar wind standoff can reproduce lunar swirl features. Read More
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Science Data Pipeline
04.11.18 – NASA’s ongoing search for life in the universe produces a lot of data. The agency’s new planet-hunting mission, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, will collect 27 gigabytes per day—and our Pleiades supercomputer will process TESS’s biweekly data deluge of almost 10 billion pixels in three to five days. Read More Read the CNN story: NASA's Planet-Hunting Satellite TESS Launches
How Much Snow Accumulates in North America Each Year? More Than Scientists Thought
03.14.18 – Scientists at The Ohio State University have revised an estimate of snow volume for the entire continent, and discovered that snow accumulation in a typical year is 50% higher than previously thought. So far, they have used 1.8 million core-hours on the Pleiades supercomputer and produced about 16 terabytes of data to run their regional climate computer models. Read More
‘Handyman Of Proteins’ Got Life Started
02.15.18 – Researchers at NASA Ames are running supercomputer simulations of hypothetical ancient proteins to better understand the origin and evolution of life in the Universe. Read more
Upcoming Events
Advanced Modeling & Simulation Seminar Series
June 14, 2018, 1:00 PM PTIntroduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics – Lecture 2
Building N258, Auditorium (Rm 127)
Speakers: Thomas H. Pulliam, NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division; David W. Zingg, University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Sciences
Part 2 of a 14-part lecture series. This series will help participants develop an understanding of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and provide an opportunity to practice numerical solution techniques as applied to the equations governing fluid mechanics and heat transfer. This session will cover Finite-differences, Taylor Tables, and compact schemes.
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