Franklin, NERSC's Cray XT4, is among the largest machines on the list of Top 500 supercomputers in the world.
NERSC
is the flagship high performance scientific
computing facility for research sponsored by the U.S. Department
of Energy Office of Science.
NERSC, a national facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is a world leader in providing resources and services that accelerate scientific discovery through computation.
A small sample of massively parallel scientific computing jobs running right now at NERSC.
One of the first images from the Planck spacecraft shown as a strip superimposed over a two-dimensional projection of the whole sky as seen in visible light. Image credit: ESA, LFI & HFI Consortia; background optical image: Axel Mellinger
State-of-the-art computing resources located at NERSC are aiding in the long and complicated process of understanding data from the Planck spacecraft that is attempting to illuminate the nature and origin of dark matter in the universe.
Scientists are creating high-resolution maps of extremely subtle variations in temperature and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), which is leftover light from the Big Bang that permeates the universe. The work relies on a team of NERSC experts that knows how to optimize and maintain well-balanced high performance computing systems as well as supercomputers with sufficient I/O (input/output) capability.
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