Our 2026 #eclipse simulation of the #solar #corona and #heliosphere has been nominated for an @HPCWire Reader's Choice Award for "Top #HPC/#AI-Enabled Scientific Achievement"! Check out our #simulation here: eclipse.predsci.com and #vote here! buff.ly/UQm8T1e

As has been our tradition for over 30 years, Predictive Science is predicting the structure of the corona for the upcoming total solar eclipse on August 12, 2026! buff.ly/e9WPME4 There are several new features in the model this year, keep reading for details!

Our POT3D code (buff.ly/QtRzBJc), which is part of SWiG, has been accepted and released as part of the new SPEC CPU 2026 Benchmark suite! More details here: buff.ly/6qmq6lS

Lionello et al. developed a method to identify folded field lines in the models, allowing for easy comparison with in-situ strahl statistics. The time-dependent runs agree well with ACE/WIND data, while the steady-state runs contain too little disconnected and folded flux.

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 PSI's Roberto Lionello led a team (including U of Reading's Matt Owens) to investigate the magnetic connectivity of the corona/heliosphere system under busy (solar maximum) and quiet (solar minimum) conditions. Details below! buff.ly/lBbygiz

3/19 @ 11:20: "Understanding How Small-scale Photospheric Magnetic Fields Influence the Global Solar Corona and Solar Wind" (Cooper Downs, C.L. Evans, D. Schmit, J.A. Linker, V.S. Titov) buff.ly/qdoFp49

Key capabilities include: generating ensembles across model parameters; post-processing analysis; a user-friendly front-end wrapper script for space weather applications (oftswa.py); and high performance, with HipFT able to run on NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD GPUs!

OFT contains everything you need to acquire and process data from HMI (MagMAP), generate convective flow profiles (ConFlow), and run the flux transport model (HipFT).

Want to generate full-Sun magnetic maps with a surface flux transport model? Check out PSI's Open-source Flux Transport (OFT): github.com/predsci/oft Read on for details!

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Yuan-Kuen Ko and co-authors (including PSI's Pete Riley and Roberto Lionello) deep dive into two coronal holes to present evidence for a surprisingly thick coronal hole boundary, and its implications for the "slow" solar wind. buff.ly/J7vBHYG

This week, we're showcasing another component of our in-house -- but open source -- suite of modeling tools...the Solar Wind Generator (SWiG)! If you need to rapidly generate WSA-like solar wind outputs, SWiG is a must-have. buff.ly/27eESkx

Introducing spherical harmonics to analyze the dominant spatial scales of the magnetic field in each run allowed Caroline to quantify the structure and draw concrete, compelling correlations. This work is part of Caroline's PhD thesis work; more of her fascinating is coming soon!