Clocking the Early Universe

By analyzing the light of distant quasars, two teams of scientists have found that 10.8 billion years ago, the Universe was expanding by one percent every 44 million years. » Read More

Lilliputian LEDs

Nanostructures half the breadth of a DNA strand could improve the efficiency of light emitting diodes and help solve the most daunting problem facing white LED lighting today: the green gap. » Read More

Climate Change Reduces Chance of Flooding in Okavango Delta

Researchers at the University of Cape Town, Berkeley Lab and the United Nations Development Programme have analyzed how human-induced climate change has affected recent flooding in an ecologically and geographically unique river basin in southern Africa—the Okavango River. » Read More

Petascale Post-Doc Project a Supercomputing Success Story

The first post-doctoral research project centered at NERSC is being credited with helping its participants advance their careers and boosting the state-of-the-art in high performance scientific computing software applications. » Read More

Stroll Down Memory Lane

NERSC@40: Step back in time with photos, stories and newsletters that date as far back as NERSC's founding in 1974. Bellbottoms and sideburns optional. » Read More

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Computing at NERSC

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Now Computing

A small sample of massively parallel scientific computing jobs running right now at NERSC.

Project	Machine	CPU Cores
Center for Edge Physics Simulation: SciDAC-3 Center PI: Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Edison	24,576
Quantum Chromodynamics with four flavors of dynamical quarks PI: Doug Toussaint, University of Arizona	Edison	18,432
Direct Numerical Simulations of Clean and Efficient Combustion with Alternative Fuels PI: Jacqueline Chen, Sandia National Laboratories - California	Edison	16,392
continuing studies of plasma based accelerators PI: Warren Mori, University of California Los Angeles	Hopper	8,208
Simulation of Photon Spectroscopies for Correlated Electron Systems PI: Thomas P. Devereaux, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center - National Accelerator Laboratory	Hopper	6,144
First principles simulations of nanostructures PI: Giulia A. Galli, University of California Davis	Carver	512