NERSC Planning Documents

NERSC User Requirements (Greenbooks)

• DOE Greenbook - Needs and Directions in High-Performance Computing for the Office of Science, A Report from the NERSC User Group, June 2005
• NERSC "Visualization Greenbook", Future Needs of the DOE Computational Science Community Hosted at NERSC, October 2002
• DOE Greenbook - Needs and Directions in High-Performance Computing for the Office of Science, A Report from the NERSC User Group, April 2002
• NERSC 3 Greenbook, November 1998   [Postscript version]

NERSC Center Plans and Self-Assessments

• Science-Driven Computing: NERSC's Plan for 2006-2010
• How Are We Doing? A Self-Assessment of the Quality of Services and Systems at NERSC, 2005-2006
• Strategic Proposal for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center FY2002 - FY2006
• Implementation Plan
• How Are We Doing? - A Self-Assessment of the Quality of Services and Systems at NERSC (2001)

Whitepapers

• Blue Planet and High-End Computing Revitalization Task Force (HECRTF) Documents

Selected Historical Documents

• Science-of-Scale Applications Achieve up to 68% of Peak Performance (2003)
• 2002 Science of Scale Projects at NERSC
• A Vision for DOE Scientific Networking Driven by High Impact Science (2002)
• NERSC and ESnet: 25 Years of Leadership (1999)