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
Energy Exascale Earth System Modeling (E3SM) Biological & Environmental Research PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	512
High Performance Simulations for Regional Scale Earthquake Hazard and Risk Assessments Advanced Scientific Computing Research PI: David Mccallen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	perlmutter	256
Ab initio theory of unconventional superconductivity Basic Energy Sciences PI: Mark van Schilfgaarde, National Renewable Energy Laboratory	perlmutter	128
Machine learning the metastable phase diagram of materials from quantum calculations Basic Energy Sciences PI: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Argonne National Laboratory	perlmutter	100
Computational studies in plasma physics and fusion energy Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Abhay Ram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	perlmutter	96
Hadron Structure from Lattice QCD Nuclear Physics PI: Kostas Orginos, College of William & Mary	perlmutter	88

Did You Know?

'Bubbles' the Cray-2

In 1985, NERSC was the first to install the Cray-2, then the fastest computer in the world. Today, just about any mobile phone has more processing power. The Cray-2 was nicknamed "Bubbles" for its unique liquid cooling system.

Visit our interactive timeline to learn more about NERSC history.