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

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.

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Some Scientific Computing Now in Progress at NERSC

Project	System	Nodes
Ab initio nuclear structure Nuclear Physics PI: Mark Caprio, University of Notre Dame	perlmutter	195
Understanding the nature of cold anisotropic filaments in multiphase interstellar media Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Ka Ho Yuen, Los Alamos National Laboratory	perlmutter	180
Learning Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Across Scales ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge PI: Po-Lun Ma, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	160
N9ES-N2 Very large scale image simulation, reconstruction, and machine-learning for scanning and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (NCEM-Smatrix) PI: Hannah DeVyldere, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	perlmutter	128
Partnership Center for High-fidelity Boundary Plasma Simulation: SciDAC-4 Center Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Choongseok Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)	perlmutter	128
High temperature electronic structure theory using density matrix quantum Monte Carlo Basic Energy Sciences PI: James Shepherd, University of Iowa	perlmutter	60

Did You Know?

Why NERSC9 Was Named Perlmutter

Saul Perlmutter – a professor of physics at UC Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist at Berkeley Lab – was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1998 discovery that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. He confirmed his observations by running thousands of simulations at NERSC, and his research team is believed to have been the first to use supercomputers to analyze and validate observational data in cosmology. Our flagship high performance computing system is named Perlmutter in his honor.