2a. Advanced Computing_Thigpen.pdf

The document is a presentation about NASA's High-End Computing Capability (HECC) project, highlighting its critical role in supporting NASA's mission across multiple research and engineering domains. The presentation details HECC's extensive computing infrastructure, which includes 5 compute clusters with over 14,000 nodes across systems like Aitken, Pleiades, Electra, Cabeus, and Endeavour, along with 13 Lustre file systems totaling 118.1 PB of storage capacity.

The presentation emphasizes HECC's broad applications, demonstrating how high-performance computing enables advanced research in aeronautics, space exploration, earth science, and astrophysics. Key capabilities include supporting massive computational tasks like simulating asteroid trajectories, modeling methane-oxygen fuel combustion, processing satellite data, analyzing galaxy growth, and developing artificial intelligence techniques. In fiscal year 2024, HECC delivered over 197 million Standard Billing Units, supporting 783 projects across various NASA mission directorates, and recently expanded capabilities by adding GPU computing resources and completing a new visualization facility with a 1-billion-pixel display wall.