GMAO Makes a Super Impact at Supercomputing Conference 2017
11.28.2017
SC17, Supercomputing Conference 2017, brought together members of the international high-performance computing (HPC) community, consisting of scientists, engineers, researchers, educators, programmers, system administrators, and developers, for a technical program, tutorials, and poster sessions. 
The SC17 Exhibition Hall featured leading vendors in the latest technologies and accomplishments from around the world, including contributions from research organizations and universities. Along with conferences such as SC17, HPC allows us to analyze mountains of data for use in understanding out universe, climate, health, and other factors in many research areas.
NASA’s exhibit booth maintained a strong presence in the exhibit hall, partly through the contributions of GMAO staff who performed demonstrations and gave Hyperwall presentations. From snowflake formations to aerosol simulations, attendees were surely enticed by the diversity and complexity of topics all relating to high-performance computing. Exhibitors in attendance from the GMAO were Dr. Thomas Clune, Dr. William Putman, Brent Smith and Amidu Oloso. Their presentations were in the “Our Planet” and “Supercomputing” sections of the meeting.
Our Planet
A Glimpse at the Future of Global Weather Prediction and Analysis at NASA
William Putman ( https://nas.nasa.gov/SC17/demos/demo34.html )
Simulating the Growth of Poly-Crystal Snowflakes
Thomas Clune ( https://nas.nasa.gov/SC17/demos/demo36.html )
Super Computing
GMAO GEOS Data in Motion
Edmond Smith ( https://nas.nasa.gov/SC17/demos/demo35.html )
Understanding the Scalability and Computational Performance of GEOS
Amidu Oloso ( https://nas.nasa.gov/SC17/demos/demo37.html )
For more information on these and other NASA presentations, please visit: https://nas.nasa.gov/SC17/index.html
