50th Anniversary Seminar Series Kicks Off

Join us for a series of seminars celebrating NERSC's legacy and future in scientific supercomputing. » Read More

Boosting Carbon-Negative Building Materials

Locking greenhouse gases into building materials could store them safely for many years. Researchers using NERSC resources are advancing the science behind this idea. » Read More

NERSC Featured at APS

Watch a new video exploring NERSC's mission and impact. It was featured at the American Physical Society's annual meeting. » Read More

Getting a Peek Into Ice Giants

Scientists are using NERSC's Perlmutter supercomputer to study the interior chemistry of ice giant planets like our solar system's Neptune. » Read More

50 Years of NERSC Firsts

Get the highlights from our last half-century of scientific supercomputing. » Read More

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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.

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Project	System	Nodes
Particle Dark Matter Across Scales High Energy Physics PI: Benjamin Safdi, University of California Berkeley	perlmutter	256
Application of Kinetic Closures in NIMROD for Fusion Plasma Simulations Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Eric Held, Utah State University	perlmutter	128
Mapping the Signatures of Shock Breakout Nuclear Physics PI: David Vartanyan, University of California Berkeley	perlmutter	120
Energy Exascale Earth System Modeling (E3SM) Biological & Environmental Research PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	110
Hadron Structure from Lattice QCD Nuclear Physics PI: Kostas Orginos, College of William & Mary	perlmutter	84
First-Principles Catalyst Design for Environmentally Benign Energy Production Basic Energy Sciences PI: Manos Mavrikakis, University of Wisconsin - Madison	perlmutter	60