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Bill
McCurdy
Associate Laboratory Director for Computing Sciences
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
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The
idea that interactive scientific computing could be provided to a
national community from a central facility was truly revolutionary.
The early NERSC center achieved that goal and built the modern aesthetic
of supercomputing, which allows scientists to interact with the machines
as though they were in the same room, visualizing and manipulating
results immediately.  |
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Al Trivelpiece
Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
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As the Director of the Office of Energy Research ... I created some
uproar by allocating 5 percent of the time available on the fusion
computer system for projects in ER other than fusion. The idea of
having a high performance computing resource available for [all] ER
programs took hold and led indirectly to NERSC. |
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James Decker
Deputy Director, DOE Office of Science |
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Looking back over my nearly 25 years of involvement with NERSC, I
think that it has been an outstanding success. It has made significant
contributions to all of our research programs. |
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Steven
Jardin
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory Chair,
NERSC Program Advisory Committee |
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One
of the greatest things about NERSC is how they are always able to
keep the computing environment seemingly unchanged as it evolves in
major ways.... As new generation computers, networks, and ?le storage
systems were brought in, the transitions have been made in such a
seamless manner that our production work was virtually uninterrupted.
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Sid Karin
Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure |
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NERSC has remained at the forefront of supercomputing ... for all
of its history. In the early days there was little competition for
the leadership role. Today there are many more respectable participants,
yet NERSC remains among the leaders. This is a remarkable sustained
accomplishment. |
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Bastiaan Braams
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,
New York University
Chair, NERSC Users Group Executive Committee |
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[NERSC] provided the U.S. fusion community with supercomputer access
of a kind that was envied everywhere and that created a national collaboratory
for fusion theory before the name "collaboratory" had been invented.
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