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
Learning Aerosol-Cloud Interactions Across Scales ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge PI: Po-Lun Ma, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)	perlmutter	160
Detector Simulation of the ATLAS Detector on NERSC HPCs High Energy Physics PI: Paolo Calafiura, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	perlmutter	128
Large-Scale Model-Based Optimization by Quantum Monte Carlo Integration Advanced Scientific Computing Research PI: Kwangmin Yu, Brookhaven National Lab	perlmutter	128
Lattice QCD Monte Carlo Calculation of Hadronic Structure and Spectroscopy Nuclear Physics PI: Keh-Fei Liu, University of Kentucky	perlmutter	128
Neutron Star Mergers: Nucleosynthesis and Multimessenger Emissions Nuclear Physics PI: David Radice, Penn State University - University Park	perlmutter	128
ECS in climate models: quantifying the uncertainties due to cloud feedback versus ocean heat uptake using a modeling hierarchy Biological & Environmental Research PI: Wei Cheng, University of Washington	perlmutter	85