The Once and Future Climate

Join Gil Compo as he discusses the 20th Century Reanalysis Project in a special webinar celebrating NERSC's 50th anniversary. » Read More

Science as Art Competition to Honor Beauty in Discovery

To celebrate 50 years of beauty in discovery, users are invited to enter the NERSC 50th Anniversary Science as Art Competition. » Read More

Hunting for 'Cracks' in Physics' Standard Model

Sometimes the absence of a surprise moves science forward. » Read More

Boosting Carbon-Negative Building Materials

Locking greenhouse gases into building materials could store them safely for many years. Researchers using NERSC resources are advancing the science behind this idea. » 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

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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Some Scientific Computing Now in Progress at NERSC

Project	System	Nodes
Lattice QCD Monte Carlo Calculation of Hadronic Structure and Spectroscopy Nuclear Physics PI: Keh-Fei Liu, University of Kentucky	perlmutter	128
Relativistic quantum dynamics in the non-equilibrium regime Basic Energy Sciences PI: Albert De Prince, Florida State University	perlmutter	70
Two-phase flow interface capturing simulations ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge PI: Igor Bolotnov, North Carolina State University	perlmutter	64
Frontiers in Accelerator Design: Advanced Modeling for Next-Generation BES Accelerators Basic Energy Sciences PI: Robert Ryne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	perlmutter	64
Earlier & cheaper fusion energy with stabilized magnetic mirrors ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge PI: Manaure Francisquez, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)	perlmutter	36
Wisconsin Turbulence Modeling for MCF Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Benjamin Faber, University of Wisconsin - Madison	perlmutter	32

Did You Know?

NERSC Resources Have Played a Part in Six Nobel Prize Winning Discoveries

George Smoot

Six Nobel Prize-winning researchers or teams have used NERSC resources in their work, including two Berkeley Lab astrophysicists who made breakthrough discoveries about the nature of the universe.

George Smoot, professor of physics at UC Berkeley and an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab, won the 2006 Nobel Prize for physics for his cosmic microwave background radiation data analysis. Smoot used NERSC supercomputers to confirm predictions of the Big Bang theory.

Saul 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.