NAS-Developed Pegasus 5 Wings Its Way to NASA’s Software of the Year
The innovative Pegasus 5 software is used by nearly every NASA aerospace program to easily handle complex grid simulations for new vehicle designs.
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Endeavour Simulations Help Reshape the Future
of Aircraft Fuel Efficiency
Aerospace engineers are exploring the potential of using an innovative flap system to reshape wings during flight to increase performance — and save fuel.
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Discovering the Origin of Stars Through 3D Simulation
First-of-a-kind simulations run on the Pleiades supercomputer are helping scientists untangle the intricate thread of events that lead to star formation.
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Tooling Up for Cleaner Skies, Quieter Aircraft
High-performance computers and simulation tools are key to helping NASA and industry design new propulsion systems that will result in cleaner, quieter aircraft.
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A Stellar Collaboration: Supercomputing and NASA's IRIS Observatory
Bringing together observations made by NASA's IRIS spacecraft with simulations run on Pleiades, scientists are studying the Sun's atmosphere more closely than ever before.
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Latest News & Highlights
NASA Spotlights Latest Science and Technology Advances at Annual Supercomputing Conference
11.08.16 – Experts from NASA centers and U.S. universities around the country will present their latest research results and achievements at SC16, the international high-performance computing conference, Nov. 14-17 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The NASA booth (#1511) will feature 40 presentations and demonstrations of NASA mission projects in aeronautics, Earth and space science, and space exploration—all enabled by the agency's high-performance computers. Visit the NASA@SC16 website
New Podcast Features NAS Aerospace Engineer Stuart Rogers
11.02.16 – NASA award-winning aerospace engineer Stuart Rogers gives us insight into his important work to combine complex simulations and wind tunnel results for designing next-generation aircraft and spacecraft. NAS’s Pleiades supercomputer is key to the process. Listen to podcast
Galactic Fireworks Illuminate Monster Hydrogen Blob
09.22.16 – An international team of researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array and other telescopes has discovered the power source illuminating a so-called Lyman-alpha Blob—a rare, brightly glowing, and enormous concentration of gas in the distant universe. Simulations were run on the NAS facility's Pleiades supercomputer. Read More
Slow Appearance of Sunspots Challenges Theory
07.13.16 – Comparing data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory with computer simulations run at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division, scientists find that sunspots rise to the surface much more slowly than predicted. Read More
Upcoming Events
NASA@SC16
November 13-18, 2016Salt Lake City, Utah
NASA researchers and scientists will be presenting their work on agency supercomputers at the 2016 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC16) in Salt Lake City, UT. SC16 will bring together the international supercomputing community—a gathering of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators and developers that is unequaled in the world. The technical program will include presentations, papers, informative tutorials, timely research posters, and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. A 515,000 sq.ft. exhibition hall will feature the latest technologies and accomplishments from the world’s leading vendors, research organizations and universities.
NASA@SC16 Website
