NASA staffs Booth #4038 at Supercomputing 2026 with Fortran, versioning and hydrology Demos

NASA will staff booth #4038 in the Exhibit Hall at Supercomputing 2026 on Tuesday, Nov. 17, Wednesday, Nov. 18 and Thursday, Nov. 19, 2026, for presentations by NASA experts. NASA Science’s Nov. 6, 2026 article invites readers to the Exhibit Hall at Booth #4038 and says the full tech demo schedule follows the introduction. NASA Science published the Supercomputing Tech Demo Schedule on Nov. 6, 2026. ShortSingh reports the schedule is intended to let attendees plan which NASA demonstrations to see.

The schedule covers Tuesday, Nov. 17, Wednesday, Nov. 18 and Thursday, Nov. 19, 2026, with Thursday split across a line break as THURSDAY in the contents list. Tom Clune will present Type-safe Templates in Fortran 2028 at 10:00 AM, 10:30 AM and 11:00 AM on Tuesday, Nov. 17. His repeated Tuesday morning sessions appear under TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, and open the program that day.

Brad Richardson will present Mixing and Matching and Multiple Versions, Oh My! on Tuesday, Nov. 17, beginning at 1:00 PM, with a truncated 1:30 PM entry also appearing. His later Tuesday talk covers version management. Jeff Becker will discuss porting NAS parallel benchmarks to use OpenMP target offload later Tuesday as part of a program spanning software development, data management and infrastructure.

Sujay Kumar will present high-resolution hydrology simulations and agentic interfaces for mapping water availability on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Chris Tanner will conclude Wednesday, Nov. 18 with presentations on modular supercomputing data centers at NASA, following Kumar’s hydrology and agentic interface sessions. The announced program places Tanner’s presentations at the end of Wednesday’s program after Kumar’s sessions.

Jeff Triplett will present on Open OnDemand and ColdFront for high-performance computing enablement on Thursday, Nov. 19, highlighting NASA and bp collaboration. His session appears on the final day as part of the announced schedule spanning software development, data management and infrastructure.

Thomas Clune serves as senior computational scientist at NASA GSFC and heads the Software Infrastructure Team inside the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, according to a NASA Goddard biography published Nov. 4, 2026. Dr. Clune represents NASA on the Fortran language committee and leads its subgroup on generic programming features. The biography notes Clune advocates for open-source software and test-driven development while leading the Fortran committee subgroup.

He created gFTL, a templating library for Fortran, and is lead developer of pFUnit, an open-source testing framework for parallel Fortran software used at ECMWF and NCAR. The biography lists gFTL and pFUnit among Clune’s open-source packages, alongside pFlogger and yaFyaml.