NERSC Science Acceleration Program
The NERSC Science Acceleration Program (NESAP) is a multi-year hands-on collaborative effort in which NERSC partners with code teams, vendors, and library and tools developers to prepare for advanced architectures and new systems.
Evolving with architectures
NESAP began in late 2014 to help users prepare for the Cori manycore Knights Landing/Xeon Phi architecture and continued into the 2020s, targeting Perlmutter, NERSC’s first production GPU-based system.
Today, NESAP focuses on workflows in a variety of areas, including the next generation of NERSC systems and DOE’s Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program.
NESAP for Doudna
The Doudna system, arriving in 2026, is designed to deliver ten times the performance of Perlmutter and power the most complex scientific workflows. It will seamlessly integrate simulation, experimental, and observational data analysis, and AI-driven discovery.
NESAP for Doudna offers hands-on collaboration to optimize and accelerate researchers’ workflows, ensuring they are ready to take full advantage of cutting-edge system capabilities.
NERSC invites users to apply for the opportunity to shape the future of computational science on next-generation supercomputers via this program.
Got questions? Want to discuss an idea?
NERSC is hosting a series of office-hours-style drop-in sessions about the NESAP for Doudna program call for proposals. If you have any questions or want to discuss your ideas for a proposal with NERSC staff, please drop in. You may also email the NESAP team with your questions.
NESAP postdoctoral fellows
Postdoctoral fellows fill essential roles within NESAP, collaborating with scientific teams to enable and improve solutions to deep, meaningful problems across all program areas funded by the Department of Energy Office of Science.
NESAP fellowships provide exceptional scholars with valuable real-world experience in large-scale scientific high performance computing. Fellows work on projects specifically selected to advance the leading edge of the discipline.
NERSC solicits applications for NESAP postdocs as needed. NESAP fellows are selected based on the match between their skills and the needs of current NESAP projects.