50th Anniversary Seminar Series Kicks Off

Join us for a series of seminars celebrating NERSC's legacy and future in scientific supercomputing. » Read More

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

NERSC Featured at APS

Watch a new video exploring NERSC's mission and impact. It was featured at the American Physical Society's annual meeting. » 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
Particle Dark Matter Across Scales High Energy Physics PI: Benjamin Safdi, University of California Berkeley	perlmutter	256
High Performance Simulations for Regional Scale Earthquake Hazard and Risk Assessments Advanced Scientific Computing Research PI: David Mccallen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	perlmutter	256
Ab initio theory of unconventional superconductivity Basic Energy Sciences PI: Mark van Schilfgaarde, National Renewable Energy Laboratory	perlmutter	128
Development of Active-Learning Methods and High Throughput Simulation Datasets for Catalysis Basic Energy Sciences PI: John Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University	perlmutter	120
Energy Exascale Earth System Modeling (E3SM) Biological & Environmental Research PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	110
Computational studies in plasma physics and fusion energy Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Abhay Ram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	perlmutter	96