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
Study of laser-plasma interactions relevant to direct-drive ICF implosions PI: Chuang Ren, University of Rochester	Edison	20,016
Study of laser-plasma interactions relevant to direct-drive ICF implosions PI: Chuang Ren, University of Rochester	Edison	20,016
Quantum Chromodynamics with four flavors of dynamical quarks PI: Doug Toussaint, University of Arizona	Edison	9,216
Computational studies in plasma physics and fusion energy PI: Abhay K. Ram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Hopper	6,144
SciDAC-3: Computation-Driven Discovery for the Dark Universe PI: Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory	Hopper	3,072
Understanding of the dynamics and energetics of molecular processes in cell signaling PI: Harel Weinstein, Cornell University	Carver	128