NERSCPowering Scientific Discovery for 50 Years

50th Anniversary Seminar Series Kicks Off

Join us for a series of seminars celebrating NERSC's legacy and future in scientific supercomputing. » Read More

Boosting Carbon-Negative Building Materials

Locking greenhouse gases into building materials could store them safely for many years. Researchers using NERSC resources are advancing the science behind this idea. » Read More

NERSC Featured at APS

Watch a new video exploring NERSC's mission and impact. It was featured at the American Physical Society's annual meeting. » Read More

Getting a Peek Into Ice Giants

Scientists are using NERSC's Perlmutter supercomputer to study the interior chemistry of ice giant planets like our solar system's Neptune. » Read More

50 Years of NERSC Firsts

Get the highlights from our last half-century of scientific supercomputing. » Read More

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.

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Some Scientific Computing Now in Progress at NERSC

Project System Nodes Node Hours Used
Development of Active-Learning Methods and High Throughput Simulation Datasets for Catalysis
 Basic Energy Sciences
 PI: John Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University
perlmutter 240
Water Cycle and Climate Extremes Modeling (WACCEM)
 Biological & Environmental Research
 PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
perlmutter 120
Hadron Structure from Lattice QCD
 Nuclear Physics
 PI: Kostas Orginos, College of William & Mary
perlmutter 84
Turbulence, Transport and Magnetic Reconnection in High Temperature Plasma
 Fusion Energy Sciences
 PI: William Dorland, University of Maryland
perlmutter 64
Energy Exascale Earth System Modeling (E3SM)
 Biological & Environmental Research
 PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)
perlmutter 44
SciDAC ISEP: Integrated Simulation of Energetic Particle Turbulence and Transport
 Fusion Energy Sciences
 PI: Zhihong Lin, University of California Irvine
perlmutter 32

Did You Know?

We Made a Cameo Appearance in the Original Movie 'Tron'

Close up of keyboard with TRON Key

A Cray-1 supercomputer at the National Magnetic Fusion Energy Computer Center (now known as NERSC) was featured in Disney’s 1982 movie “Tron.”

 

»Visit our interactive timeline to learn more about NERSC history.