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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

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Now Computing

Some of the science now being computed at NERSC

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Project	System	Nodes
Proton GPDs from lattice QCD using asymmetric frames Nuclear Physics PI: Martha Constantinou, Temple University	perlmutter	144
Partnership Center for High-fidelity Boundary Plasma Simulation: SciDAC-4 Center Fusion Energy Sciences PI: Choongseok Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)	perlmutter	128
Quarkonia in Hot Medium Nuclear Physics PI: Peter Petreczky, Brookhaven National Lab	perlmutter	128
Lattice QCD search for physics beyond the standard model High Energy Physics PI: Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory	perlmutter	128
A Digital Twin for Spatiotemporal experiments Basic Energy Sciences PI: Subramanian Sankaranarayanan, Argonne National Laboratory	perlmutter	100