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<\/figure>\nProviding cutting-edge supercomputing capabilities to power Earth system modeling innovation and accelerate scientific discovery<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
NASA\u2019s Earth Modeling Nexus Core Computing (Nexus Compute) is the technology engine that powers the agency’s flagship Earth system models. As NASA’s Earth Modeling Nexus (Nexus) advances a more unified modeling and data assimilation framework, Nexus Compute ensures strategic alignment between model development and the high-end computing power needed to run them.
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Nexus Compute provides specialized computing capabilities for the large, complex challenges that NASA models are uniquely designed to address, improving Earth system understanding and robust future estimations. The centerpiece is the Discover supercomputing cluster, which synthesizes decades of trusted NASA Earth observations to build fine-scale, high-fidelity simulations of global systems \u2013 including land, atmosphere, ocean, and ice processes \u2013 across time scales from days to centuries. This capability is central to discovery, enabling scientists to unlock deeper understanding of interconnected Earth systems and stimulating new technology and applications to support partners and industry. <\/p>\n
To further support innovation and efficiency, Nexus Compute provides tens of petabytes of data storage, a software environment tailored to modeling code development, optimized resource management, and user resources. This mission-critical infrastructure provides the scalable performance and agility needed to advance NASA\u2019s Earth science vision and maximize trustworthy, observation-constrained Earth information for societal benefit.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n