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
High Performance Simulations for Regional Scale Earthquake Hazard and Risk Assessments Advanced Scientific Computing Research PI: David Mccallen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	perlmutter	256
High-Latitude Application and Testing (HiLAT) of Earth System Models & Regional Arctic System Model Biological & Environmental Research PI: Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	73
A Digital Twin for Spatiotemporal experiments Basic Energy Sciences PI: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Argonne National Laboratory	perlmutter	68
Water Cycle and Climate Extremes Modeling (WACCEM) Biological & Environmental Research PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	58
Two-phase flow interface capturing simulations ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge PI: Igor Bolotnov, North Carolina State University	perlmutter	52
Stability and Turbulent Transport of Field-Reversed Configuration (FRC) Plasmas Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Calvin Lau, TAE Technologies	perlmutter	34