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About NERSCThe National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the flagship scientific computing facility for the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy. As one of the largest facilities in the world devoted to providing computational resources and expertise for basic scientific research, NERSC is a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. NERSC is located at Berkeley Lab in Berkeley, California. The more than 3000 computational scientists who use NERSC perform basic scientific research across a wide range of disciplines. These disciplines include climate modelling, research into new materials, simulations of the early universe, analysis of data from high energy physics experiments, investigations of protein structure, and a host of other scientific endeavors. A survey of scientific research performed at NERSC can be found in the NERSC Annual Reports. NERSC is known as one of the best run scientific computing facilities in the world. While NERSC provides some of the largest computing and storage systems available anywhere, what distinguishes NERSC is its success in creating an environment that makes these resources effective for scientific research. NERSC systems are reliable and secure, and provide a state-of-the-art scientific development environment with the tools needed by the diverse community of NERSC users. NERSC provides intellectual services that allow computational scientists to be more effective -- consultants who are experts in computational science and performance tuning, visualization assistance, training, customized support, and other services. If you do not already have a NERSC user account, you may apply for a startup allocation. Startup awards are available for new projects that wish to investigate using NERSC resources, or who wish to port or develop new codes. The only requirements are that your project meets the DOE Office of Science Mission and requires high performance computing resources. NERSC resources include:
Access to NERSC from anywhere in the U.S. and the world is available through ESnet. The production NERSC connection to ESnet is 10 gigabits per second (Gbs) ethernet via the Bay Area Metropolitan Area Network which provides dual connectivity to six DOE sites. ESnet has OC-192 (10 Gbs) bandwidth on major backbone links and peering points and OC-12 (622 Mbs) and OC-48 (2.4 Gbs) links over much of the rest of its coverage area. |
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