NERSCPowering Scientific Discovery Since 1974

Shining a Light on Electron's Role in Energy Transfer Among 2D Materials

The surprising results of a study facilitated by NERSC's supercomputing prowess could pave the way for a new generation of transistors. » Read More

Berkeley Lab is Leading the Charge to Superfacility

The aim is no less than an integrated and automated system for gathering, transporting, and analyzing scientific data in real time. » Read More

WarpX Goes Exascale

The ECP-funded WarpX Project has spent the last six years creating a novel, highly parallel, and highly optimized single-source simulation code for modeling plasma-based particle colliders on cutting-edge exascale supercomputers. » Read More

EQSIM's Sophisticated Earthquake Simulations

A collaboration involving scientists and computing resources from Berkeley Lab will publicly release its most accurate earthquake simulations to date. » Read More

Machine Learning Helps Process Large Bioimaging Datasets

Berkeley Lab scientists used several machine learning techniques in a pipeline to segment and identify cryo-ET cell membrane structures. » Read More

Perlmutter Results Show Progress in Quantum Information Science

The [email protected] program uses the Perlmutter supercomputer at NERSC to advance quantum information science (QIS). » Read More

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Computing at NERSC

Now Computing

A small sample of jobs running on NERSC supercomputers right now.

Project System Nodes Core Hours Used
Lattice QCD Monte Carlo Calculation of Hadronic Structure and Spectroscopy
 Nuclear Physics
 PI: Keh-Fei Liu, University of Kentucky
Cori 200
Turbulence, Transport and Magnetic Reconnection in High Temperature Plasma
 Fusion Energy Sciences
 PI: William Dorland, University of Maryland
Cori 128
Enabling HEP Frontier Science through HEPCloud
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Dirk Hufnagel, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Cori 100
Using facet-ii and atf lepton beams in plasma-based acceleration: ionization injection of collider-quality beams and probing of plasma waves created by a self-modulated co2 lasers
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Navid Vafaei-Najafabadi, Stony Brook University
Cori 64
Continuing studies of plasma based accelerators
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Warren Mori, University of California Los Angeles
Cori 64
Simulation of Magnetically Confined Fusion Plasmas
 Fusion Energy Sciences
 PI: Ronald E. Waltz, General Atomics
Cori 32

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