BISICLES Captures Details of Retreating Antarctic Ice

Satellite observations suggest that the shrinking West Antarctic ice sheet is contributing to global sea level rise. But until recently, scientists could not accurately model the physical processes driving retreat of the ice sheet. Now, a new ice sheet model—BISICLES—is shedding light on these details. » Read More

Simulations Yield Clues to How Cells Interact With Surrounding

Computer models offer a new look at the molecular machinery that enables cells to interact with their environment. The research has implications for cancer and atherosclerosis research. » Read More

Cosmic Message Received

Thanks to a sensitive space telescope and some sophisticated supercomputing done at NERSC, scientists from the international Planck collaboration have made the closest reading yet of the most ancient story in our universe: the cosmic microwave background. » Read More

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

Project	Machine	CPU Cores
Advanced Simulation of Pore Scale Reactive Transport Processes Associated with Carbon Sequestration PI: David Trebotich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	49,152
Climate Change Simulations with CESM: Moderate and High Resolution Studies PI: Warren M. Washington, National Center for Atmospheric Research	Hopper	16,512
Towards Predictive Simulations of Soot Formation: From Surrogate to Turbulence PI: Guillaume Blanquart, California Institute of Technology	Hopper	16,392
Electronic and optical properties of novel photovoltaic and thermoelectric materials from first-principles PI: Emmanouil S. Kioupakis, University of Michigan	Edison	4,800
High Fidelity Simulations of Turbulent Reacting Flows for Multi-physics Model Development PI: Colleen M. Kaul, Stanford University	Carver	512
Effect of strain on the superconducting properties of Nb3Sn PI: Matthias Mentink, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Carver	256