NERSC Science and Technology Highlights

For more science and technology news, see the NERSC Newsroom; and for year-by-year reviews, see the NERSC Annual Reports.

Discoveries

A sampling of significant scientific discoveries enabled by NERSC.

Milestones

Computing milestones over NERSC's 30+ year history.

INCITE

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program provides computational support for a small number of computationally intensive large-scale research projects that make high-impact scientific advances.

SciDAC

The Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program was created to addressed major scientific challenges relevant to the DOE Office of Science. A number of SciDAC projects rely on the computational facilities and support provided by NERSC.

Projects at NERSC

NERSC is involved in a variety of scientific and technological projects.

Frequently Requested NERSC Reports

• Science-Driven Computing: NERSC's Strategic Plan for 2006-2010 (PDF)
• National Facility for Advanced Computational Science: A Sustainable Path to Scientific Discovery (PDF)
• Creating Science-Driven Architecture: A New Path to Scientific Leadership (PDF)
• IBM SP Parallel Scaling Overview
• ESP: A System Utilization Benchmark (PDF)

Scientific and Technical Publications

• Scientific publications based on results obtained using NERSC (listed in 2006)
• Scientific publications based on results obtained using NERSC (listed in 2005)
• Scientific publications based on results obtained using NERSC (listed in 2004)
• Scientific publications based on results obtained using NERSC (listed in 2003)
• Technical Publications by NERSC