Presentation
Celestial Fireworks
SessionArt of HPC Gallery
DescriptionThis animation shows a supercomputer simulation of the large coronal mass ejection (CME) that occurred on July 14, 2000 (nicknamed the "Bastille Day Event"). The CME ejected over a billion tons of million-degree plasma at over 1,600 km/s from the solar corona, which is the magnetized outer atmosphere of the Sun. Extreme CMEs like this well-studied event can lead to costly impacts on our technological infrastructure, including power grids, satellites, and GPS communication. Magnetic field lines of the erupting flux system and a volumetric rendering of the density of the entrained plasma are shown erupting from the source active region on the Sun.
The HPC simulation was developed by Predictive Science Inc. using the Magnetohydrodynamic Algorithm outside a Sphere (MAS) Modern Fortran code (github.com/predsci/mas) at a resolution of over 60 million cells, running on several thousand processors.
The HPC simulation was developed by Predictive Science Inc. using the Magnetohydrodynamic Algorithm outside a Sphere (MAS) Modern Fortran code (github.com/predsci/mas) at a resolution of over 60 million cells, running on several thousand processors.
Event Type
Art of HPC
TimeSunday, 16 November 20258:00am - 6:00pm CST
LocationArt of HPC - Plaza Lobby
Art of HPC