NASA Receives Two HPCwire Awards
NASA teams and partners were honored with two HPCwire Reader’s Choice Awards this year for the astronaut Twin Study and the Spaceborne computer. NASA’s High-End Computing Program Manager Tsengdar Lee and Director of Exploration Technology at NASA Ames Rupak Biswas accepted the awards, presented by HPCwire President Tom Tabor.
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NASA Missions to Benefit from New Cloud Computing Services
NASA-funded scientific and engineering projects will get a boost from a new cloud computing service that expands the agency’s range of high-performance computing service offerings. Through a secure, managed cloud environment approach, the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility and the NASA Center for Climate Simulation (NCCS) will provide supported access to resources at commercial cloud providers.
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World Premiere: Mars Soundscapes
Tuesday, Nov. 13 at 4:20 in the NASA Small Theater: Come listen to the world premiere of Mars Soundscapes, an artistic and scientific project that translates images from NASA’s Mars rovers Curiosity and Opportunity, and data from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, into music using a process called sonification. Featuring researcher and composer Domenico Vicinanza, GÉANT and Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK, and Genevieve Williams, University of Exeter.
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NASA’s Electra Supercomputer Rises to 12th Place in the U.S. on the TOP500 List
Recently expanded, NASA’s first modular supercomputer has moved to 12th place in the ranking of the most powerful computers in the United States, and is 33rd worldwide on the November 2018 TOP500 list.
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SC 30th Anniversary Perennials 1988–2018
At SC18, NASA is being recognized as one of just eleven “perennial” organizations that have exhibited at each SC conference since its inception in 1988. Read More
NASA Brings its Science and Supercomputing Advances to Annual Conference
From designing rocket launch pad components and safer rotorcraft to improving flood and drought forecasts to modeling the formation of planetary disks, NASA will highlight supercomputing advances at SC18, the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Nov. 12 to 15 in Dallas. Read More
NASA at SC18—Beyond the Booth
In addition to the inspiring science and engineering demos happening in the NASA booth, researchers and high-performance computing experts from the agency and its partners will participate in events across the SC18 program and exhibits, including:
Advanced computational tools are enabling more realistic simulations to help engineers design safer, greener, and quieter rotorcraft in a timely, cost-effective way.
Using machine learning, researchers are extracting more information from satellite observations to better predict the global water cycle and monitor water’s role in Earth’s ecosystems.
Computational fluid dynamics simulations are helping project engineers evaluate design choices as they work on improving key launch pad components.
Combining supercomputer simulations with observations from NASA satellites and telescopes helps scientists to understand the origin of turbulent disks orbiting stars in binary systems.
