NERSCPowering Scientific Discovery for 50 Years

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Quantum Computing Partnership Extended

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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.

Computing at NERSC

Now Computing

Some of the science now being computed at NERSC

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Project System Nodes Node Hours Used
PRISMS: Integrated multiscale modeling of Mg structural alloys
 Basic Energy Sciences
 PI: Vikram Gavini, University of Michigan
perlmutter 200
Center for Computational Study of Excited-State Phenomena in Energy Materials (C2SEPEM)
 Basic Energy Sciences
 PI: Jack Deslippe, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
perlmutter 192
Electronic structure calculations and simulations of chemical and biological systems
 Basic Energy Sciences
 PI: Martin Head-Gordon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
perlmutter 128
Lattice QCD search for physics beyond the standard model
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory
perlmutter 128
LZ - LUX ZEPLIN
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Maria Elena Monzani, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
perlmutter 51
Development of New Force Fields using Machine Learning and First Principles Physics
 Basic Energy Sciences
 PI: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Argonne National Laboratory
perlmutter 50

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NERSC Powers Thousands of Science Results Each Year


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Each year researchers publish around 2,000 peer-reviewed results based on work using our resources.