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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

Now Computing

Some of the science now being computed at NERSC

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Project System Nodes Node Hours Used
Lattice QCD search for physics beyond the standard model
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory
perlmutter 288
Proton GPDs from lattice QCD using asymmetric frames
 Nuclear Physics
 PI: Martha Constantinou, Temple University
perlmutter 144
Effects of magnetic field and dynamical ejecta on compact object merger outflows and nucleosynthesis
 Nuclear Physics
 PI: Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Northwestern University
perlmutter 90
Quarkonia in Hot Medium
 Nuclear Physics
 PI: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Lab
perlmutter 64
Particle acceleration in astrophysical collisionless shocks
 Nuclear Physics
 PI: Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University
perlmutter 40
Continuing studies of plasma based accelerators
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Frank Tsung, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
perlmutter 36

Did You Know?

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

George Smoot

George Smoot

Seven 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 Perlmuter

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 for 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.

Read more about Nobel-prize winning science NERSC has supported over the years.