Clocking the Early Universe

By analyzing the light of distant quasars, two teams of scientists have found that 10.8 billion years ago, the Universe was expanding by one percent every 44 million years. » Read More

Lilliputian LEDs

Nanostructures half the breadth of a DNA strand could improve the efficiency of light emitting diodes and help solve the most daunting problem facing white LED lighting today: the green gap. » Read More

Climate Change Reduces Chance of Flooding in Okavango Delta

Researchers at the University of Cape Town, Berkeley Lab and the United Nations Development Programme have analyzed how human-induced climate change has affected recent flooding in an ecologically and geographically unique river basin in southern Africa—the Okavango River. » Read More

Petascale Post-Doc Project a Supercomputing Success Story

The first post-doctoral research project centered at NERSC is being credited with helping its participants advance their careers and boosting the state-of-the-art in high performance scientific computing software applications. » Read More

Stroll Down Memory Lane

NERSC@40: Step back in time with photos, stories and newsletters that date as far back as NERSC's founding in 1974. Bellbottoms and sideburns optional. » Read More

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

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
Multiscale Methods for Accurate, Efficient, and Scale-Aware Models of the Earth System PI: William D. Collins, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	49,152
Advanced Light Source PI: Michael Banda, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Edison	11,904
Advanced Light Source PI: Michael Banda, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Edison	11,160
Center for Simulation of Wave-Plasma Interactions: SciDAC Project PI: Paul T. Bonoli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Edison	9,216
CASCADE: CAibrated and Systematic Characterization, Attribution and Detection of Extremes PI: Michael F. Wehner, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	7,680
First principles simulations of nanostructures PI: Giulia A. Galli, University of California Davis	Carver	512