Edison Cray XC30
Edison Status: Up
Edison, A Cray XC30, is NERSC's newest petaflop system with a peak performance of more than 2 petaflops. Edison features the Cray Aries high-speed interconnect, fast Intel processors, large memory per core, and a multi-petabyte local scratch file system.
Supercomputer Helps Model 3D Map of Adolescent Universe
Using extremely faint light from galaxies 10.8 billion light years away, scientists have created one of the most complete, three-dimensional maps of a slice of the adolescent universe—just 3 billion years after the Big Bang. Read More »
Supercomputers Fuel Global High-Resolution Climate Models
Not long ago, it would have taken several years to run a high-resolution simulation on a global climate model. But using supercomputing resources at NERSC, Berkeley Lab climate scientist Michael Wehner was able to complete a run in just three months. Read More »
Edison Electrifies Scientific Computing
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center recently accepted “Edison,” a new flagship supercomputer designed for scientific productivity. Named in honor of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, the Cray XC30 will be dedicated in a ceremony held at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Feb. 5, and scientists are already reporting results. Read More »
