NERSCPowering Scientific Discovery for 50 Years

NERSC Launches IBM Quantum Innovation Center

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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
Structure and Reactions of Hadrons and Nuclei; Non-perturbative Solutions of Strongly Interacting Particles and Nuclei
 Nuclear Physics
 PI: James Vary, Iowa State University
perlmutter 1,146
Lattice QCD search for physics beyond the standard model
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory
perlmutter 264
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 256
Particle acceleration in astrophysical collisionless shocks
 Nuclear Physics
 PI: Anatoly Spitkovsky, Princeton University
perlmutter 40
Wisconsin Turbulence Modeling for MCF
 Fusion Energy Sciences
 PI: Benjamin Faber, University of Wisconsin - Madison
perlmutter 32
Continuing studies of plasma based accelerators
 High Energy Physics
 PI: Frank Tsung, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
perlmutter 32

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NERSC Powers Thousands of Science Results Each Year


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Each year researchers publish around 2,000 peer-reviewed results based on work using our resources.