NASA transparently discloses the tech used in their high end computing program through a publicly accessible computing systems overview document . Their most powerful supercomputer system is Athena, which entered service in January 2026. Athena is capable of over 20 petaflops of peak performance, making it roughly 190 times faster than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card that cutting edge gaming PCs are using today . NASA deployment of supercomputers at the Advanced Supercomputing Facility...
