NERSCPowering Scientific Discovery for 50 Years

Exploring NERSC's Mission and Impact at APS

NERSC is featured in a video at this week’s American Physical Society annual meeting. » Read More

Getting a Peek Into Ice Giants

Scientists are using NERSC's Perlmutter supercomputer to study the interior chemistry of ice giant planets like our solar system's Neptune. » Read More

50 Years of NERSC Firsts

Get the highlights from our last half-century of scientific supercomputing. » Read More

Revealing the Reaction Behind Salt-Based Nuclear Reactors

Using computing resources at NERSC, researchers have revealed how electrons interact with ions of molten salts, providing insights into the processes that could occur inside salt-based nuclear reactors. » Read More

NERSC Turns 50 in 2024

Did you know NERSC got its start in fusion energy research? Learn more about our unique history and join us in celebrating half a century of energizing scientific enlightenment through computing. » Read More

Shining a Light on Microbial Dark Matter

NERSC collaborations help illuminate Earth’s biodiversity. » Read More

Perlmutter Supports Gravitational Lensing System Modeled on GPUs

A team of researchers has modeled a rare instance of strong gravitational lensing known as an Einstein Cross. It’s likely the first such model run on GPUs. » Read More

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

NERSC is the mission scientific computing facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, the nation’s single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences.

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Some Scientific Computing Now in Progress at NERSC

Project System Nodes Node Hours Used
Wisconsin Turbulence Modeling for MCF
 Fusion Energy Sciences
 PI: Benjamin Faber, University of Wisconsin - Madison
perlmutter 128
Scientific Data Management Research
 
 PI: Kesheng Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
perlmutter 128
Large scale simulations of materials for quantum information science
 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge
 PI: Giulia Galli, University of Chicago
perlmutter 64
Energy Exascale Earth System Modeling (E3SM)
 Biological & Environmental Research
 PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
perlmutter 44
Large-Scale Many-Body Perturbation Theory Simulations of Optoelectronic Materials
 Basic Energy Sciences
 PI: Sahar Sharifzadeh, Boston University
perlmutter 24

Did You Know?

Why NERSC9 Was Named Perlmutter

Saul PerlmutterSaul Perlmutter – a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Berkeley Lab – was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. He confirmed his observations by running thousands of simulations at NERSC, and his research team is believed to have been the first to use supercomputers to analyze and validate observational data in cosmology. Our flagship high performance computing system is named Perlmutter in his honor.