NERSC Strategic Plan Is Now Online

The plan discusses NERSC’s mission, goals, science drivers, planned initiatives, and technology strategy, among other topics. » Read More

Trillion Particle Simulation on Hopper Honored with Best Paper

An unprecedented simulation pushed NERSC’s Hopper to its limits and allowed researchers to glean valuable insights that will help thousands of scientists worldwide make the most of current petascale and future exascale supercomputers. » Read More

Researchers Model Impact of Aerosols Over California

For the first time, researchers have characterized the relative, direct influence of different aerosol species on seasonal atmospheric warming and cooling over California using supercomputers at NERSC and at PNNL. » Read More

Math of Popping Bubbles in a Foam

Researchers have described mathematically the complex evolution and disappearance of foamy bubbles, a feat that could help in modeling industrial processes. Applying these equations, they used NERSC supercomputers to create visualizations showing the disappearance of wobbly foams one burst bubble at a time. » Read More

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Computing at NERSC

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Now Computing

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

Project	Machine	CPU Cores
Static and dynamic solutions for heavy nuclei PI: Ionel Stetcu, Los Alamos National Laboratory	Hopper	28,968
Cosmology with the Lyman-Alpha Forest PI: Nishikanta Khandai, Brookhaven National Lab	Hopper	3,072
Computational approach to the nuclear pore complex: effective parameters in transport across the nuclear envelope PI: Hengameh Shams, University of California Berkeley	Hopper	2,520
Large-Scale Computation for Discovery and Design of Excited State Phenomena in Next-Generation Energy Conversion Materials PI: Jeffrey Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Edison	2,400
Novel density functional theory approaches to the statistical mechanics of aqueous systems PI: Christopher Mundy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Carver	352
Effect of strain on the superconducting properties of Nb3Sn PI: Matthias Mentink, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Carver	256
Energy Materials at Extreme Conditions PI: Hokwang Mao, Carnegie Institution of Washington	Carver	200
First-Principles Catalyst Design for Environmentally Benign Energy Production PI: Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin - Madison	Carver	168
Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of properties of strongly interacting Fermi systems PI: Stefano Gandolfi, Los Alamos National Laboratory	Carver	128