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

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
Energy Exascale Earth System Modeling (E3SM) Biological & Environmental Research PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	512
Lattice QCD search for physics beyond the standard model High Energy Physics PI: Rajan Gupta, Los Alamos National Laboratory	perlmutter	432
Hadron Structure from Lattice QCD Nuclear Physics PI: Kostas Orginos, College of William & Mary	perlmutter	84
Water Cycle and Climate Extremes Modeling (WACCEM) Biological & Environmental Research PI: Lai-Yung Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	58
Optoelectronic properties of bent two-dimensional materials from first-principles methods combined with machine learning Basic Energy Sciences PI: Adrienn Ruzsinszky, Temple University	perlmutter	32
Enabling Aerosol-cloud interactions at GLobal convection-permitting scalES (EAGLES) Biological & Environmental Research PI: Po-Lun Ma, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	32