Pleiades is a petascale supercomputer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center located at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California. It is maintained by NASA and partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel.
Pleiades (supercomputer)
Anatomy of a Pleiades node, shown on display at the NASA Ames Exploration Center, in Mountain View, California
Pleiades supercomputer outside view
Pleiades Westmere-based racks. The addition of the Westmere and Nehalem nodes increased the computing capacity available on Pleiades by 170%.
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
The NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division is located at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, California. It has been the major supercomputing and modeling and simulation resource for NASA missions in aerodynamics, space exploration, studies in weather patterns and ocean currents, and space shuttle and aircraft design and development for almost forty years.
NASA Advanced Supercomputing Division
An image of the flowfield around the Space Shuttle Launch Vehicle traveling at Mach 2.46 and at an altitude of 66,000 feet (20,000 m). The surface of the vehicle is colored by the pressure coefficient, and the gray contours represent the density of the surrounding air, as calculated using the OVERFLOW code.
Image: NASA Hyperwall 2
Image: Hyperwall 2
