Berkeley Lab Study Confirms Amassing CO₂ Heats Earth’s Surface

Analysis of a decade of atmospheric data helps scientists detect an increase in carbon dioxide’s greenhouse effect at the Earth’s surface. The culprit? Fossil fuel emissions. » Read More

New Algorithm Enables Faster Simulations of Ultrafast Processes

An enhancement to the real-time time-dependent density function theory code opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research. » Read More

Raindrops Physics May Affect Climate Model Accuracy

Using NERSC supercomputers, researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that factors as small as how sizes of raindrops were represented in a computer model made a big difference in the accuracy of results. » Read More

Pinpointing the Magnetic Moments of Nuclear Matter

Using NERSC's Edison supercomputer, a team of nuclear physicists has made a key discovery in its quest to shed light on the structure and behavior of subatomic particles. » Read More

A Standard for Neuroscience Data

Berkeley Lab and NERSC researchers are developing tools to standardize data formats and storage for the neuroscience research community. They are also working on a portal to make sharing neuroscience data easier. » Read More

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

Project	Machine	CPU Cores
Microbial Genome and Metagenome Data Processing and Analysis PI: Nikos Kyrpides, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	49,152
Lattice QCD Study of the Structure of Light Nuclei PI: Martin J. Savage, University of Washington	Hopper	16,896
X-ray spectroscopic studies of transition-metal compounds PI: Michel A. Van Veenendaal, Northern Illinois University	Edison	9,600
Calibrated and Systematic Characterization Attribution and Detection of Extremes PI: Travis A. Obrien, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Edison	9,600
Particle Acceleration by Ultra-Intense Lasers PI: Daniel F. Gordon, Naval Research Lab	Edison	8,208
Next-generation genome-scale in silico modeling: the unification of metabolism, macromolecular synthesis, and gene expression regulation PI: Bernhard O. Palsson, University of California San Diego	Carver	208

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Did You Know?

George Smoot, professor of physics at UC Berkeley & an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab, won the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for his cosmic microwave background radiation data analysis. He used NERSC supercomputers to confirm predictions of the Big Bang theory.