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From Supercomputers to Wind Tunnels: NASA’s Road to Artemis II

Of the many roads leading to successful Artemis missions, one is paved with high-tech computing chips called superchips. Along the way, a partnership between NASA wind tunnel engineers, data visualization scientists, and software developers verified a quick, cost-effective solution to improve NASA’s Space Launch System) rocket for the upcoming Artemis II mission. A high-speed network connection between high-end computing resources at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility and the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel at NASA’s Ames Research Center is enabling a collaboration to improve the rocket for the Artemis II mission.

Find out more about the NAS Division's role in this Artemis II work.


NAS in the News: Scientists Crack the Code on Mars Parachute Fabric Performance

Engineers working on Mars mission parachutes have made a breakthrough in understanding how the fabric itself affects landing performance, research that could improve future planetary missions. Simulations were run on the Anvil supercomputer at Purdue University, along with computational resources provided by the NASA High-End Computing Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division.

Read more about parachute simulations enabled by NAS resources.

Advanced Modeling and Simulation (AMS) Seminar Series


Hosted by the Computational Aerosciences Branch at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility, this seminar series presents talks on recent achievements, innovative tools, and current problems being faced by members of the modeling and simulation community from NASA, government, industry, and academia.

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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.

Read more about how these simulations are helping oceanographers decipher hot spots of phytoplankton growth.

NASA Foundation Model Experiments Show Promise in NAS Environment

Our data science experts advise agency foundation models teams on best practices for using artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) methods on systems at the NAS facility. Recently, working on the Foundation Model Experiments project in partnership with IBM, data scientists at NASA’s Marshall, Goddard, and Ames showed the value of feeding large volumes of observational data into transformer-based foundation models in order to gain real scientific insights.

Read more about the foundation model experiment success.

NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Aircraft Begins Taxi Tests

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft has officially begun taxi tests, marking the first time this one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft has moved under its own power. Researchers in the NAS Division have conducted research for the X-59 mission, performing high-fidelity simulations using the Aitken supercomputer to analyze the vehicle’s potential performance prior to its first flight later this year.

Read more about the X=59 quiet supersonic aircraft.

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