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

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Some Scientific Computing Now in Progress at NERSC

Project	System	Nodes
HPE Collaborative Research Advanced Scientific Computing Research PI: Richard Gerber, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - NERSC	perlmutter	512
Wisconsin Turbulence Modeling for MCF Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Benjamin Faber, University of Wisconsin - Madison	perlmutter	128
Energy partition and particle acceleration in laser-driven laboratory magnetized shocks ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge PI: Frederico Fiuza, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	perlmutter	121
Machine learning the metastable phase diagram of materials from quantum calculations Basic Energy Sciences PI: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Argonne National Laboratory	perlmutter	100
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
Continuing studies of plasma based accelerators High Energy Physics PI: Frank Tsung, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)	perlmutter	64