The Great Gas Hydrate Escape

For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as a place to store carbon dioxide. Now, a computer analysis of the ice and gas compound, known as a gas hydrate, reveals key details of its structure. This work could enlighten alternative fuel production and carbon dioxide storage. » Read More

Bubbles Help Break Energy Storage Record for Lithium Air-Batteries

Using supercomputers at NERSC and microscopy, a team of researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Princeton University recently built a novel graphene membrane that could produce a lithium-air batter with the highest-energy capacity to date. » Read More

A Precision Model of the Cosmos

Using NERSC systems, Berkeley Lab scientists and their Sloan Digital Sky Survey colleagues have produced the biggest 3D color map of the universe ever. The team also achieved the most accurate calculation yet of how matter clumps together – from a time when the universe was only half its present age until now. » Read More

Closest Type Ia Supernova in Decades Solves a Cosmic Mystery

Last August, the "supernova of a generation" came into view in backyards across the northern hemisphere. Now physicists and astronomers who had caught its earliest moments are announcing the closest, most detailed look ever at one of the universe’s brightest “standard candles.” » Read More

Supercomputers Take a Cue From Microwave Ovens

To build the break-through supercomputers that climate researchers need to model clouds, scientists are taking a cue from consumer electronics where everything from chips to batteries to software is optimized to the device’s application. » Read More

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A small sample of massively parallel scientific computing jobs running right now at NERSC.

Project	Machine	CPU Cores
Projections of Ice Sheet Evolution Using Advanced Ice and Ocean Models PI: William D. Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	13,536
Quantum Chromodynamics with three and four flavors of dynamical quarks PI: Doug Toussaint, University of Arizona	Hopper	12,288
Microbial Genome and Metagenome Data Processing and Analysis PI: Victor M. Markowitz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	12,288
Center for Plasma Edge Simulation: SciDAC FSP Prototype Center PI: Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Hopper	12,288
Global cloud modeling PI: David A. Randall, Colorado State University	Carver	256
Clay Mineral Surface Geochemistry PI: Ian Bourg, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Carver	256
Quantum Simulations of Nanoscale Solar Cells PI: Jeffrey C. Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Carver	256