NERSC Science and Technology Highlights

For more science and technology news, see the NERSC Newsroom; and for year-by-year reviews, see the NERSC Annual Reports.

Discoveries

A sampling of significant scientific discoveries enabled by NERSC.

Milestones

Computing milestones over NERSC's 30+ year history.

INCITE

The Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program provides computational support for a small number of computationally intensive large-scale research projects that make high-impact scientific advances.

SciDAC

The Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) program was created to addressed major scientific challenges relevant to the DOE Office of Science. A number of SciDAC projects rely on the computational facilities and support provided by NERSC.

Selected 2003 Science of Scale projects

Three large projects from 2003 are hightlighted: Spectrum Synthesis of Supernovae; Magnetic Materials: Bridging Basic and Applied Science; NIMROD Project: Extended Magnetohydrodynamic Modeling for Fusion Experiments.

Selected 2002 Science of Scale projects

Featured: DOE Climate Change Prediction Program; High-Resolution Global Couples Ocean/Sea Ice Modeling; Supernova Explosions and Cosmology; Black Hole Merger Simulations. (PDF File)

Projects at NERSC

NERSC is involved in a variety of scientific and technological projects.

Frequently Requested NERSC Reports

• National Facility for Advanced Computational Science: A Sustainable Path to Scientific Discovery (PDF)
• Creating Science-Driven Architecture: A New Path to Scientific Leadership (PDF)
• IBM SP Parallel Scaling Overview
• ESP: A System Utilization Benchmark (PDF)

Scientific and Technical Publications

• Scientific publications based on results obtained using NERSC (fiscal year 2003)
• Technical Publications by NERSC