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
Theoretical spectra calculations of liquid water and ion solutions Basic Energy Sciences PI: Xifan Wu, Temple University	perlmutter	512
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon High Energy Physics PI: Aida El-Khadra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	perlmutter	432
Ab initio theory of unconventional superconductivity Basic Energy Sciences PI: Mark van Schilfgaarde, National Renewable Energy Laboratory	perlmutter	128
Machine learning the metastable phase diagram of materials from quantum calculations Basic Energy Sciences PI: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Argonne National Laboratory	perlmutter	100
Hadron Structure from Lattice QCD Nuclear Physics PI: Kostas Orginos, College of William & Mary	perlmutter	88
Particle-in-Cell Simulations of Laser Plasma Interactions Relevant to Inertial Fusion Energy Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Frank Tsung, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)	perlmutter	64

Did You Know?

Why NERSC9 Was Named Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter – a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Berkeley Lab – was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. He confirmed his observations by running thousands of simulations at NERSC, and his research team is believed to have been the first to use supercomputers to analyze and validate observational data in cosmology. Our flagship high performance computing system is named Perlmutter in his honor.