Hunting for 'Cracks' in Physics' Standard Model

Sometimes the absence of a surprise moves science forward. » Read More

Mavrikakis Up Next in Our 50th Anniversary Seminars

Manos Mavrikakis, a 24-year NERSC user, discusses his research into the reaction-driven formation of novel active sites on catalytic surfaces. Join us May 20.

Boosting Carbon-Negative Building Materials

Locking greenhouse gases into building materials could store them safely for many years. Researchers using NERSC resources are advancing the science behind this idea. » Read More

Getting a Peek Into Ice Giants

Scientists are using NERSC's Perlmutter supercomputer to study the interior chemistry of ice giant planets like our solar system's Neptune. » Read More

50 Years of NERSC Firsts

Get the highlights from our last half-century of scientific supercomputing. » Read More

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

NERSC is the mission scientific computing facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the nation’s single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences.

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Some Scientific Computing Now in Progress at NERSC

Project	System	Nodes
Energy Conversion in Photosynthesis Basic Energy Sciences PI: Junko Yano, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	perlmutter	256
Detector Simulation of the ATLAS Detector on NERSC HPCs High Energy Physics PI: Paolo Calafiura, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	perlmutter	128
Optoelectronic properties of hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors (HOIS) Basic Energy Sciences PI: Yanfa Yan, University of Toledo	perlmutter	64
Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations with CRK-HACC High Energy Physics PI: Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory	perlmutter	64
Computational Atomic and Molecular Physics for Fusion Energy Sciences Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Michael Pindzola, Auburn University	perlmutter	64
High-Latitude Application and Testing (HiLAT) of Earth System Models & Regional Arctic System Model Biological & Environmental Research PI: Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	57

Did You Know?

When Did NERSC Start Naming Systems in Honor of Scientists?

This Cray T3E 900 was the first in a long line of scientific supercomputers named for scientists.

Since NERSC moved to Berkeley Lab in 1996, the Department of Energy’s primary scientific computing facility has named all of its supercomputers after scientists.

The naming tradition started in the late 1990s with NERSC’s flagship Cray T3E system. It was called “MCurie” in honor of Marie Curie, the French-Polish physicist and chemist known for her pioneering research on radioactivity. In November 1997, MCurie was the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world. The system had 512 processors and a theoretical peak speed of 461 billion calculations per second (461 Gigaflops). At the time, it was the nation's biggest supercomputer for unclassified research.