NERSC logo National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
  A DOE Office of Science User Facility
  at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
 
Seaborg
NERSC's IBM SP, Seaborg, has 6,080 processors for running scientific applications.

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.

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Take the 2004 NERSC User Survey Please take a few minutes to fill out NERSC's annual user survey. Your feedback will allow us to judge the quality of our services, give DOE information on how we are doing, point us to areas we can improve, and show how we compare to similar facilities. [SURVEY]

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Platinum nanoparticles

Making Fuel Cells More Efficient and Affordable

Fuel cells sound like an ideal power source — they are efficient and quiet, have few moving parts, run on hydrogen, and emit only water vapor. It's no wonder that President Bush proposed new research into hydrogen-powered automobiles in his 2003 State of the Union address. But for this dream to become reality, scientists and engineers need to make fuel cells less expensive. [Article]


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