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NERSC Launches IBM Quantum Innovation Center

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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

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Now Computing

Some of the science now being computed at NERSC

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Project	System	Nodes
Relativistic quantum dynamics in the non-equilibrium regime Basic Energy Sciences PI: Albert De Prince, Florida State University	perlmutter	256
Continuing studies of plasma based accelerators High Energy Physics PI: Frank Tsung, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)	perlmutter	144
Lattice QCD search for physics beyond the standard model High Energy Physics PI: Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory	perlmutter	128
Detector Simulation of the ATLAS Detector on NERSC HPCs High Energy Physics PI: Paolo Calafiura, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	perlmutter	50
Direct Numerical Simulations of Reactive Flow under Intense Sheared Turbulence and Nonequilibrium Conditions Basic Energy Sciences PI: Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories - California	perlmutter	50
Integrated Coastal Modeling (ICoM) Biological & Environmental Research PI: Zeli Tan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	45

Did You Know?

CTRCC = NERSC

NERSC began in 1974 as the Controlled Thermonuclear Research Computer Center (CTRCC) and it was the first center in the world to provide centralized supercomputing with network access to researchers in other locations.