Berkeley Lab Study Confirms Amassing CO₂ Heats Earth’s Surface

Analysis of a decade of atmospheric data helps scientists detect an increase in carbon dioxide’s greenhouse effect at the Earth’s surface. The culprit? Fossil fuel emissions. » Read More

New Algorithm Enables Faster Simulations of Ultrafast Processes

An enhancement to the real-time time-dependent density function theory code opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research. » Read More

Raindrops Physics May Affect Climate Model Accuracy

Using NERSC supercomputers, researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory found that factors as small as how sizes of raindrops were represented in a computer model made a big difference in the accuracy of results. » Read More

Pinpointing the Magnetic Moments of Nuclear Matter

Using NERSC's Edison supercomputer, a team of nuclear physicists has made a key discovery in its quest to shed light on the structure and behavior of subatomic particles. » Read More

A Standard for Neuroscience Data

Berkeley Lab and NERSC researchers are developing tools to standardize data formats and storage for the neuroscience research community. They are also working on a portal to make sharing neuroscience data easier. » Read More

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

Project	Machine	CPU Cores
Microbial Genome and Metagenome Data Processing and Analysis PI: Nikos Kyrpides, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	49,152
Time-dependent density functional theory for nuclei and cold atoms PI: Ionel Stetcu, Los Alamos National Laboratory	Edison	28,800
DFT analysis of energetics for nanostructure formation and catalysis on metal surfaces PI: Da-Jiang Liu, Ames Laboratory Iowa State University	Edison	21,000
Particle Acceleration by Ultra-Intense Lasers PI: Daniel F. Gordon, Naval Research Lab	Edison	16,392
Turbulent Transport and Multiscale Gyrokinetic Simulation PI: Wei-Li W. Lee, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory	Hopper	12,288
Computational Characterization of Porous Materials PI: Berend Smit, University of California Berkeley	Carver	136

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Did You Know?

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.