NOvA Sees Strong Evidence for Antineutrino Oscillation

Using NERSC's Cori and Fermilab's HEPCloud program, the NOvA neutrino experiment performed the largest-scale analysis ever to support the recent evidence of antineutrino oscillation, a phenomenon that may hold clues to how our universe evolved. » Read More

Simulating Impact of a Major Quake

A team of Berkeley Lab and LLNL researchers is leveraging powerful supercomputers at NERSC to portray the impact of high-frequency ground motion on thousands of representative different-sized buildings spread out across the California region. » Read More

Science Search

Science Search, a web-based search engine for scientific data is currently being developed by a team of researchers in Berkeley Lab's CRD and NERSC. The team is also developing innovative machine learning tools to automatically generate missing metadata tags for each file. » Read More

Self-Healing Cement Could Be a Boon to Oil & Gas Industry

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a unique cement that can repair itself in as little as a few hours; simulations run at NERSC helped them understand how it works. » Read More

Deep Learning at 15 PFlops Enables Training for Extreme Weather Identification at Scale

Petaflop per second deep learning training performance on the Cori supercomputer at NERSC has given climate scientists the ability to use machine learning to identify extreme weather events in huge climate simulation datasets. » Read More

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

Project	Machine	Nodes
High fidelity gyrokinetic study of divertor heat-flux width and pedestal structure PI: Choong-Seock Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)	Cori	2,048
Lattice QCD Monte Carlo Calculation of Hadronic Structure and Spectroscopy PI: Keh-Fei Liu, University of Kentucky	Edison	880
Investigating climate-biogeochemistry feedbacks with the Department of Energy's next- generation high-resolution Earth system model PI: Peter Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Edison	285
Investigating climate-biogeochemistry feedbacks with the Department of Energy's next- generation high-resolution Earth system model PI: Peter Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Edison	285
Water Cycle and Climate Extremes Modeling (WACCEM) PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	Cori	135
Quantum Chromodynamics with four flavors of dynamical quarks PI: Doug Toussaint, University of Arizona	Cori	128
Theory of nanostructured materials PI: Jeffrey Neaton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Cori	128

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'Bubbles' the Cray-2

In 1985, NERSC was the first to install the Cray-2, then the fastest computer in the world. Today, an iPad has more processing power. The Cray-2 was nicknamed "Bubbles" for its unique liquid cooling system.