Breaking the Exaop Barrier

Computational scientists from Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge national laboratories and engineers from NVIDIA have, for the first time, demonstrated an exascale-class deep learning application that has broken the exaop barrier. » Read More

NERSC Recognized by NASA for Contributions to Planck Mission

NERSC staff was honored with a NASA Group Achievement Award for their HPC support of the Planck Space Mission, which pushed the limits of HPC and cosmology. » Read More

Cosmoflow

A Big Data Center collaboration between NERSC, Intel and Cray has yielded another first in the quest to apply deep learning to data-intensive science: CosmoFlow, the first large-scale science application to use the TensorFlow framework on a CPU-based HPC platform with synchronous training. » Read More

Pickled Power

Computer simulations reveal that an additive commonly used to extend the life of Li-On batteries works because of a chemical reaction similar to pickling. » Read More

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

Project	Machine	Nodes
energy exascale earth system modeling (e3sm) PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	Edison	350
Investigating climate-biogeochemistry feedbacks with the Department of Energy's next- generation high-resolution Earth system model PI: Peter Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Edison	285
partnership center for high-fidelity boundary plasma simulation: scidac-4 center PI: Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)	Cori	256
psi scidac: predicting the performance and impact of dynamic pfc surfaces PI: Brian D. Wirth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Edison	175
Optimizing stellarators for energetic particle confinement PI: Samuel Lazerson, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)	Cori	128
Exascale PredictiveWind Plant Flow Physics Modeling PI: Michael A. Sprague, National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Cori	128
Calibrated and Systematic Characterization Attribution and Detection of Extremes PI: Travis A. O'Brien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Cori	108

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Did You Know?

Saul Perlmutter—a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Berkeley Lab—was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. He confirmed his observations by running thousands of simulations at NERSC, and his research team is believed to have been the first to use supercomputers to analyze and validate observational data in cosmology.