NASA High-End Computing Capabilities

High-End ComputingHome NASA High-End Computing NASA High-End… HEC Home HEC Capabilities Funding Request Computing Time For HEC Users NASA High-End Computing Capabilities Learn about the supercomputers and other services provided by NASA’s High-End Computing facilities. NASA’s High-End Computing (HEC) facilities and services support scientists and engineers across all NASA Mission Directorates, as well as university and industry partners. These resources are maintained by the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division, which operates the agency’s premier supercomputing facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.  NAS provides more than 1,500 NASA-associated HEC users with advanced computing systems, storage, and innovative tools and technologies for solving today’s science and engineering problems.  Major Technical Areas Supercomputing Systems Providing computational power, storage, and a user-friendly environment to run jobs, with 24/7/365 help desk assistance. Application Optimization Facilitating advances in science and engineering for NASA programs and projects by helping users improve their productivity and code performance on high-end computing applications. End-to-End Networking Providing efficient, reliable high-speed networking to meet the massive modeling, simulation data distribution, and access requirements of geographically dispersed users. Visualization & Data Analysis Creating leading-edge software tools to help engineers and scientists gain insight into large, complex datasets, incorporating advanced visualization technologies and displays such as the in-house developed hyperwall visualization system. Computing Resources Athena Released to users early 2026, Athena is currently NASA’s most powerful supercomputer. It has a peak performance of 20.13 petaflops, or 20 quadrillion calculations every second, and sits at the Modular Supercomputing Facility (MSF) at Ames. Learn More Aitken Aitken was the first system to be housed at the MSF at Ames. The MSF site, built to take advantage of Silicon Valley’s mild climate, saves thousands of gallons of water daily and reduces cooling and electrical power costs. Learn More Cabeus Cabeus is a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)-based system, built to support artificial intelligence, visualization, and other analytics applications that can particularly benefit from accelerated processing. It is housed at NASA Ames. Learn More Electra The Electra supercomputer, housed in a pair of environmentally friendly modules near the main NAS building at Ames, is NASA’s first prototype modular supercomputing system. Learn More Endeavour The Endeavour supercomputer at Ames is a shared-memory system supporting applications that need access to large cache-coherent, global shared-memory capabilities in a single system image. Learn More Data Storage The 1,400-petabyte storage system at Ames allows HEC science and engineering users to archive and retrieve important results quickly, reliably, and securely. Learn More Visualization The hyperwall visualization system at Ames—one of the largest and most powerful in the world—provides a supercomputer-scale environment that allows users to view and explore their computational results in unprecedented detail and speed. Learn More High-End Computing for Researchers NASA-funded researchers, engineers, and scientists can use HEC computing resources for their projects. This includes access to the computing systems, as well as integrated, customizable services such as visualization, data analysis pipelines, and networking. Learn More and Get Started Snapshot of a magnetic loop emerging through the solar surface, as simulated by NASA’s High-End Computing facilities. Patrick Moran, NASA/Ames Keep Exploring Discover More Topics From NASA Artificial Intelligence for Science NASA is creating artificial intelligence tools to help researchers use NASA’s science data more effectively. Open Science at NASA NASA’s commitment to open science fuels groundbreaking research while maximizing transparency, innovation, and collaboration. Computing Solar System The post NASA High-End Computing Capabilities appeared first on NASA Science.