Acknowledge NERSC

Please acknowledge in your publications the role NERSC facilities played in your research. Also, please alert our communications staff when a paper is accepted or close to publication. They may feature your work in a science story and on the NERSC home page.

A sample acknowledgement:

This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 using NERSC award <OOO>-ERCAP<XXXXX>.

Where <OOO> is one of

• The Office of Science program office that made the award (one of ASCR, BER, BES, FES, HEP, NP)
• ALCC for ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge Awards
• DDR for awards made through the NERSC Director's Discretionary program, which includes education and exploratory projects as well as all special programs like ECP, [email protected], COVID, etc.

and <XXXX> is the ERCAP request number for your award. If you do not know the ERCAP request ID number, you can look it up at https://ercap.nersc.gov/ or you can use the project identifier  and year (e.g. m306 for 2020)

You may use a variation on this theme, calling out specific simulations or portions of the research that used NERSC resources, or even citing the system used. However, the crucial elements are

• The spelled-out center name (you can use the acronym if needed): National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
• U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

If possible and appropriate, please also include

• NERSC's Research Organization Registry (ROR) ID: https://ror.org/05v3mvq14
• NERSC's DOI from the Crossref Funder Registry: 10.13039/100017223
• Global Research Identifier Database ID:  grid.484489.d

We appreciate your conscientiousness in this matter. Acknowledgment and pre-publication notification help the center communicate the importance of its role in science to its funding agency, helping to assure the continued availability of this valuable resource.