NASA’s supercomputing capabilities helped the United States win the space race against the Soviet Union, but the agency now needs to emphasize oversight and management of its high-end computing ...

S pirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Now, using a powerful NASA supercomputer ...

NASA recently showed off one of these simulations—the Apollo 12 landing—during its appearance at SC23, an annual international supercomputing conference in Denver, Colorado.

Supercomputers used by NASA scientists and researchers from Japan's University of Toho have figured out when all life on Earth will end. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 19:27:22 GMT (1750793242720) Story ...

NASA’s supercomputer visualizations reveal in magnificent detail how the mass of 4.3 million Suns might work to radically warp the light from the flat accretion disk.

The aerospace agency’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) audited the Planetary Defense plan and on Tuesday published the ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort ...

Detailed models were run on supercomputers, calculating many factors including climate and how temperature might change over time. In the end, the model made a chilling prediction -- all life on ...

NASA has announced its most powerful supercomputer yet, dubbed "Aitken". However the new top dog is not a freshly built, multi-billion dollar computing beast, but actually a modular upgrade to a ...

NASA Supercomputer unveils the hidden spiral shape structure. The findings from this new research show that the Oort Cloud, a vast shell of icy stuff that surrounds the Sun, ...

8 thoughts on “ A History Of NASA Supercomputers, Among Others ” SteveS says: May 5, 2023 at 9:39 am If you ever get a chance to examine an old early-model Cray up close you should do it. They ...