Like A Plant, Turn Sunlight Into Electricity

Inspired by plants, scientists have created a light-harvesting material that can turn sunlight into chemical energy. However, creating a stable form of the material for large-scale usage has proved difficult. » Read More

Turning Water into Hydrogen Fuel

To do its job, the popular catalyst titanium dioxide often needs an even layer of hydroxyl groups across its surface; thanks to NERSC systems and a new method by scientists at PNNL, the catalyst is now getting it. » Read More

New Accelerator Will Study Steps on the Path to Fusion Power

The NDCX-II has recently marked successful completion. Designed with the aid of computer simulations executed at NERSC, the accelerator was created to study warm dense matter, an important research field in itself and particularly relevant to nuclear fusion. » Read More

Floating Robots Track Water Flow, Stream Data via Smartphones

To understand how water flows through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 100 mobile sensors were placed into the Sacramento River on May 9 to make critical measurements every few seconds. Once collected, this data is transmitted to NERSC for assimilation and analysis. » Read More

NERSC's Franklin Retires

This week, the Department of Energy’s NERSC retired one of its most scientifically prolific supercomputers to date—a Cray XT4 named Franklin, in honor of the United States’ pioneering scientist Benjamin Franklin. » Read More

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Computing at NERSC

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

Project	Machine	CPU Cores
Turbulent Transport and Multiscale Gyrokinetic Simulation PI: Wei-Li W. Lee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Hopper	16,416
Computational Atomic Physics for Fusion Energy PI: Michael S. Pindzola, Auburn University	Hopper	13,824
Advanced Technology Group: (CoDEx) CoDesign for Exascale PI: John M. Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	10,008
High Performance Software and Algorithms for Applied Partial Differential Equations PI: Phillip Colella, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	8,208
Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis For The Planck Satellite Mission PI: Julian D. Borrill, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Carver	512
First principles-based design of novel solar thermal fuels PI: Jeffrey C. Grossman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Carver	512
Computational Studies on the Reactivity, Reaction Mechanism and Kinetics of Catalytic Systems PI: Donghai Mei, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Carver	448