TechWomen Visit NERSC

Thirty women from the United States Department of State’s 2012 TechWomen cultural exchange toured the Department of Energy’s NERSC on Thursday, September 27. » Read More

End-to-End Network Tuning Sends Data Screaming from NERSC to NOAA

Earlier this year, NERSC and ESnet staff helped NOAA's Gary Bates transfer 170 terabytes of data from NERSC in Oakland, Ca back to NOAA in Boulder, Co at a whopping rate of 395 megabytes per second for a weather forecasting project. » Read More

Now Accepting Applications for Alvarez Fellowship!

Apply now for the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Science, sponsored by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Computing Sciences Directorate. The successful applicant will receive a competitive salary and excellent benefits. » Read More

Supernovae of the Same Brightness, Cut From Different Cosmic Cloth

The Palomar Transient Factory team presented historic observations of a rare Type 1a supernova progenitor system in an August issue of Science. The event was initially detected by the PTF Real-Time Detection pipeline at NERSC. » Read More

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Computing at NERSC

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A small sample of massively parallel scientific computing jobs running right now at NERSC.

Project	Machine	CPU Cores
Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis For The Planck Satellite Mission PI: Julian D. Borrill, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	28,800
Advanced Simulation of Pore Scale Reactive Transport Processes Associated with Carbon Sequestration PI: David Trebotich, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	16,392
Quantum Monte Carlo for Electronic Structure of Molecules PI: William A. Lester, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Hopper	12,288
Electronic Structure Calculations for Energy-Efficient Reactions at Liquid-Solid and Gas-Solid Interfaces PI: Jeffrey Greeley, Argonne National Laboratory	Carver	128
First principle investigations of the catalytic transformations of biomass-derived compounds PI: Bin Liu, Argonne National Laboratory	Carver	128