The Once and Future Climate
Join Gil Compo as he discusses the 20th Century Reanalysis Project in a special webinar celebrating NERSC's 50th anniversary. » Read More
Science as Art Competition to Honor Beauty in Discovery
To celebrate 50 years of beauty in discovery, users are invited to enter the NERSC 50th Anniversary Science as Art Competition. » Read More
Hunting for 'Cracks' in Physics' Standard Model
Sometimes the absence of a surprise moves science forward. » 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
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
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When Did NERSC Start Naming Systems in Honor of Scientists?
Since NERSC moved to Berkeley Lab in 1996, the Department of Energy’s primary scientific computing facility has named all of its supercomputers after scientists.
The naming tradition started in the late 1990s with NERSC’s flagship Cray T3E system. It was called “MCurie” in honor of Marie Curie, the French-Polish physicist and chemist known for her pioneering research on radioactivity. In November 1997, MCurie was the fifth most powerful supercomputer in the world. The system had 512 processors and a theoretical peak speed of 461 billion calculations per second (461 Gigaflops). At the time, it was the nation's biggest supercomputer for unclassified research.