NERSC aspires to be a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery
through computation. Our vision is to provide high-performance computing
tools to tackle science's biggest and most challenging problems, and to
play a major role in advancing large-scale computational science and
computing technology. The result will be a rate of scientific progress
previously unknown.
NERSC's mission is to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery in
the Department of Energy Office of Science (SC) community by providing
high-performance computing, information, and communications services.
NERSC has a threefold strategy for increasing researchers' productivity:
- Providing leading-edge platforms and services that make NERSC the
foremost resource for large-scale computation within DOE.
- Introducing the best new computer science tools to SC researchers.
- Providing intellectual services (for example, development of
innovative algorithms, simulations, and visualization techniques) that
make these complicated technologies useful for computational science.
Table of Contents
DIRECTOR'S
PERSPECTIVE
YEAR
IN REVIEW
Computational
Science
Research
by NERSC Clients
Advanced
Scientific Computing Research
Basic
Energy Sciences
Biological
and Environmental Research
Fusion
Energy Sciences
High
Energy and Nuclear Physics
Research
by NERSC Staff
Climate
Modeling
Combustion
Modeling
Earth
Sciences
Materials
Science
New
Peer Review Process
Shared
Memories: Reflections on NERSC's 25th
Anniversary
Researchers
Solve a Fundamental Problem of Quantum Physics
User
Satisfaction Continues to Grow
New
Computing Technologies
Optimizing
the Productivity of New Architectures
Phase
I IBM SP System
Effective
System Performance Benchmark
T3E
Utilization Tops 90%
PC
Cluster Project
Alternative
Architectures
The
Petabyte Data Challenge
Mass
Storage
Data
Management
Preparing
for the Computational Grid
NERSC-3
Procurement Team Recognized for Successful
Effort
Oakland
Scientific Facility Under Construction
Towards a DOE
Science Grid
GRAND
CHALLENGE RETROSPECTIVE
SCIENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Basic Energy Sciences
Atomic and
Electronic Structure of Ceramic/Metal Interfaces
Molecular-Based
Simulation of Complex Fluids
Benchmarking
Computational Chemistry Methods for Combustion and Process Modeling
Needs
Photonic
Band Gap Materials
Computational
Chemistry for Nuclear Waste Characterization and Processing: Relativistic
Quantum Chemistry of Actinides
Electronic
Structure and Simulation Calculations of Reactive Chemical
Systems
Particulate
Dynamics in Filtration and Granular Flow
Quantum
and Classical Simulations of Clusters, Nanostructural Manipulations, and
Nanotribology
Quantum
Monte Carlo for Electronic Structure of Combustion Systems
Materials,
Methods, Microstructure, and Magnetism
Semiclassical
Initial Value Representation Methods for Reaction Dynamics
Advanced
Computation for Geophysical Inverse Problems
Chemical
Scaling Studies in Combustion
Application
of Electronic Structure Methods to Large Semiconductor Quantum
Nanostructures
Biological and Environmental Research
Modeling 3D
Decaying Turbulence on the Sphere with SEAM
Computer
Simulation of Enzyme Reactions
Modeling
of Scintillation Produced by Ionizing Radiation in Inorganic
Crystals
High-Resolution
Sensitivity Studies of Southern Ocean Eddies Using Two Ocean
Models
Protein
Dynamics and Enzyme Function
Recognition
and Classification of Protein Folds in Complete Genomes
Coupled
Parallel Climate Model (PCM) Applications to Climate Change
Prediction
for the IPCC and the National Assessment
Three-Dimensional
Global Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling
PCMDI:
Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Modeling
Fusion Energy Sciences
Numerical
Tokamak Turbulence Project
Numerical
Study of Global Stability of Field-Reversed Configurations
Turbulent
and MHD Behavior of Free Liquid Jets and Films and Magnetically Confined
Plasmas
Microstructure
Evolution in Irradiated Materials
Modeling
of Intense Beams for Heavy-Ion Fusion
Large-Scale
Gyrokinetic Simulation of Electromagnetic Plasma Turbulence
NIMROD
Code Development
Theoretical
Calculations of Plasma Turbulence, RF Heating, and Stellarator
Physics
Lattice
Boltzmann Simulations for Divertor Physics and
Turbulence
High Energy and Nuclear Physics
Monte
Carlo Methods for Nuclear Structure
Quantum
Monte Carlo for Nuclei and Nuclear/Neutron Matter
Continuing
Studies of Plasma Beat Wave Accelerators
Weak Matrix
Elements from Lattice QCD
Cosmic
Microwave Background Data Analysis-The BOOMERANG Long Duration Balloon
Flight
STAR
Detector Simulations and Data Analysis
Computational
Accelerator Physics Grand Challenge
Optimal
Photometric Reduction of Supernova Images for Cosmological
Measurements
Domain-Wall
Quarks at Finite Temperature
Weak Matrix
Elements with Domain Wall Quarks
QCD
Simulations with Improved Staggered Quarks
Advanced
Scientific Computing Research and Other Projects
Numerical
Simulation of Turbulent Reacting Flows
Linear
Algebra Algorithms on High Performance Computers
Carbon-Climate
Interactions
A Numerical
Study of Acceleration-Driven Fluid Interface Instabilities
Quantum
Monte Carlo Simulations of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems in Reduced
Dimensions
Global
Optimization Approaches to Protein Fold Refinement and Tertiary Structure
Prediction
Electron-Atom
and Electron-Molecule Collision Processes
Regional Scale
Climate Variability and Impact Assessment for the Western United
States
Sparse
Linear Algebra Algorithms and Applications for MPPs
APPENDIX A:
NERSC Policy Board
APPENDIX B:
NERSC Program Advisory Committee
APPENDIX C:
NERSC Users Group Executive Committee
APPENDIX D:
Scientific Computing Applications Council
APPENDIX E:
Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
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