NERSC Allocation Year Transition is Underway

This yearly transition involves several critical deadlines and policy changes all users should know about. » Read More

AI Shows Promise for Mapping Disease Progression

Congratulations to the Winners of the NERSC Science as Art Competition

With 70-plus eye-popping entries, we couldn't pick just one. » Read More

David Baker Wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry

A computational biologist and prolific user of NERSC systems, David Baker has been awarded a Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in computational protein design. » Read More

Quantum Computing Partnership Extended

After a successful first year punctuated by strong scientific results, NERSC’s partnership with QuEra Computing has been extended. » Read More

Magnifying Deep Space Through the 'Carousel Lens'

Using the Perlmutter supercomputer, DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys, and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, researchers identified a rare and revealing gravitational lens. » Read More

Tropical Cyclones Intensify Due to Warming Atmosphere

Tropical cyclones have grown more intense near global coastal regions. A new study found that hotter air interacting with humidity and wind shear is likely the culprit. » 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.

Computing at NERSC

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Now Computing

Some of the science now being computed at NERSC

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Project	System	Nodes
The anomalous magnetic moment of the muon High Energy Physics PI: Aida El-Khadra, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	perlmutter	384
Lattice QCD Monte Carlo Calculation of Hadronic Structure and Spectroscopy Nuclear Physics PI: Keh-Fei Liu, University of Kentucky	perlmutter	256
Joint Genome Institute - Production Sequencing and Genomics Biological & Environmental Research PI: Kjiersten Fagnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Joint Genome Institute (JGI)	perlmutter	256
Lattice QCD search for physics beyond the standard model High Energy Physics PI: Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory	perlmutter	80
First principles simulations of nanostructures Basic Energy Sciences PI: Giulia Galli, University of Chicago	perlmutter	60
PRISMS: Integrated multiscale modeling of Mg structural alloys Basic Energy Sciences PI: Vikram Gavini, University of Michigan	perlmutter	50

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.