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Quantum Computing Partnership Extended

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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.

Computing at NERSC

Now Computing

Some of the science now being computed at NERSC

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Project System Nodes Node Hours Used
Lattice QCD search for physics beyond the standard model
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory
perlmutter 128
LZ - LUX ZEPLIN
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Maria Elena Monzani, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
perlmutter 71
Relativistic quantum dynamics in the non-equilibrium regime
 Basic Energy Sciences
 PI: Albert De Prince, Florida State University
perlmutter 64
Understanding the nature of cold anisotropic filaments in multiphase interstellar media
 Fusion Energy Sciences
 PI: Ka Ho Yuen, Los Alamos National Laboratory
perlmutter 64
Platforms for quantum information science: ab initio investigations of spin defects in insulating oxides and semiconductors
 Advanced Scientific Computing Research
 PI: Giulia Galli, University of Chicago
perlmutter 32
Wisconsin Turbulence Modeling for MCF
 Fusion Energy Sciences
 PI: Benjamin Faber, University of Wisconsin - Madison
perlmutter 32

Did You Know?

Designing Super Quantum Computers

NERSC supercomputers are being used to help design super quantum computers of the future.