International Survey Ranks Berkeley Lab as Top Unclassified Computing Center in United States
December 17, 1997
The semi-annual TOP500 list released in November 1997 ranked the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center's Cray T3E-900 supercomputer as the most powerful unclassified machine in the U.S. and the fifth most powerful in the world.
NERSC provides leading-edge computational science support to hundreds of researchers across the nation with its Cray T3E-600 (ranked 84th), its Cray C90 (number 313); and cluster of four Cray J90se machines.
The TOP500 list, compiled by scientists at the University of Tennessee and Mannheim University in Germany, can be found at www.netlib.org/benchmark/top500.html.
About NERSC and Berkeley Lab
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the primary high-performance computing facility for scientific research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the NERSC Center serves more than 4,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in combustion, climate modeling, fusion energy, materials science, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines. Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California for the U.S. DOE Office of Science. For more information about computing sciences at Berkeley Lab, please visit www.lbl.gov/cs.
