NERSC's Mission

NERSC aspires to be a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. Our vision is to provide high-performance computing tools to tackle science's biggest and most challenging problems, and to play a major role in advancing large-scale computational science and computing technology. The result will be a rate of scientific progress previously unknown.

NERSC's mission is to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery in the Department of Energy Office of Science (SC) community by providing high-performance computing, information, and communications services. NERSC has a threefold strategy for increasing researchers' productivity:

• Providing leading-edge platforms and services that make NERSC the foremost resource for large-scale computation within DOE.
• Introducing the best new computer science tools to SC researchers.
• Providing intellectual services (for example, development of innovative algorithms, simulations, and visualization techniques) that make these complicated technologies useful for computational science.