US EditionAthena Becomes NASA’s Fastest Supercomputer With 20 Quadrillion Calculations Per Second
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When a space mission goes wrong in a simulation, it is usually good news: it means that the error was discovered in time, in a controlled environment, and not on the launch platform. That type of digital testing needs a huge amount of calculation, as if thousands of calculators worked at the same time, coordinated to the millimeter. Athena, NASA’s new supercomputer, who the agency has just made available to its scientific and engineering communi…
Athena Becomes NASA’s Fastest Supercomputer With 20 Quadrillion Calculations Per Second
NASA has taken the wraps off Athena, the space agency's most potent supercomputer yet. It'll be tasked with things like aircraft and spacecraft modeling, rocket launch simulations, large-scale AI training, etc. Housed at NASA’s Modular Supercomputing Facility (within Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley) and just brought fully online
NASA launches Athena — its most powerful supercomputer
Housed in the Modular Supercomputing Facility at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, Athena delivers more computing power than any other NASA system, surpassing the capabilities of its predecessors, Aitken and Pleiades, in power and efficiency.
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