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In support of the DOE Office of Science’s mission, the NERSC Center served 2,819 scientists throughout the United States in 2004. Appendix B provides statistical information about NERSC’s clients, their primary affiliations, and their scientific disciplines. Hundreds of scientific publications in 2004 were based at least in part on calculations done at NERSC; a list is available.

Making this scientific productivity possible requires the hard work, expertise, and ingenuity of the NERSC Center and Computational Research Division (CRD)¹ group and team leaders (Figure 1) and their dedicated staff, backed up by skilled business and administrative specialists (Figure 2). Highlights of their accomplishments during the past year are described on the following pages.

Jim Craw	Nancy Meyer	Francesca Verdier		Lynn Rippe	Zaida McCunney
Advanced Systems, Computational Systems, and PDSF Systems	Mass Storage	User Services		Procurement Specialist	Administrator
Howard Walter	Steve Lowe	Wes Bethel		Heidi Hallett
					Figure 2. NERSC’s business and administrative specialists provide crucial support that helps the Center run smoothly and efficiently.
Networking, Security, Servers and Workstations	Control Room, Operations and ESnet Support Team	Visualization Services (CRD)		Administrator
Esmond Ng	Kathy Yelick
Scientific Computing Support (CRD)	Future Technologies (CRD)	Figure 1. NERSC and CRD group and team leaders work behind the scenes to make the Center a world leader in high performance computing (HPC) and computational science.

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¹Selected CRD staff work on advanced development projects for the NERSC Center and provide focused high-end support for NERSC clients.