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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
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon High Energy Physics PI: Aida El-Khadra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	perlmutter	384
High Precision Calculations of the Nucleon Structure for Fundamental Symmetries Nuclear Physics PI: Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory	perlmutter	288
Detector Simulation of the ATLAS Detector on NERSC HPCs High Energy Physics PI: Paolo Calafiura, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	perlmutter	100
Energy Exascale Earth System Modeling (E3SM) Biological & Environmental Research PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	42
Three-dimensional studies of white dwarfs, massive stars, and neutron star systems Nuclear Physics PI: Michael Zingale, Stony Brook University	perlmutter	39
First principles simulations of nanostructures Basic Energy Sciences PI: Giulia Galli, University of Chicago	perlmutter	32

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.