Zoom in to the NERSC 50th Anniversary User Meeting

Can't be with us in person this week? Join this special NERSC Annual User meeting virtually October 22-24. » Read More

David Baker Wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry

A computational biologist and prolific user of NERSC systems, David Baker has been awarded a Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in computational protein design. » Read More

Quantum Computing Partnership Extended

After a successful first year punctuated by strong scientific results, NERSC’s partnership with QuEra Computing has been extended. » Read More

Magnifying Deep Space Through the 'Carousel Lens'

Using the Perlmutter supercomputer, DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers identified a rare and revealing gravitational lens. » Read More

Got What it Takes to be a Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellow?

Applications are now open. » Read More

Tropical Cyclones Intensify Due to Warming Atmosphere

Tropical cyclones have grown more intense near global coastal regions. A new study found that hotter air interacting with humidity and wind shear is likely the culprit. » 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.

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
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon High Energy Physics PI: Aida El-Khadra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	perlmutter	384
HIGH-PRECISION HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS BY QUANTUM MONTE CARLO (LDRD) Basic Energy Sciences PI: Michal Bajdich, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	perlmutter	144
Mapping the Signatures of Shock Breakout Nuclear Physics PI: David Vartanyan, University of California Berkeley	perlmutter	144
Lattice QCD Monte Carlo Calculation of Hadronic Structure and Spectroscopy Nuclear Physics PI: Keh-Fei Liu, University of Kentucky	perlmutter	128
Cosmological Hydrodynamic Simulations with CRK-HACC High Energy Physics PI: Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory	perlmutter	128
Reconnection-Driven Turbulent Cascade in Magnetized Collisional and Collisionless Plasmas Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Chuanfei Dong, Boston University	perlmutter	100

Did You Know?

Why NERSC9 Was Named Perlmutter

Saul 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.