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Cray Delivers First Third of the Franklin XT4 System to NERSC

January 16, 2007

On Tuesday, January 16, 2007, NERSC received the first installment of its new Cray XT4 supercomputer. Although a test system had been delivered the previous fall, the delivery of 36 cabinets (including 3,336 computational dual core nodes) marks the start of the installation of the full system, which is expected to go into production this summer. Read More »

DOE INCITE Program Awards Large Allocations at NERSC to Study Supernovae, Fusion Energy, Climate Change, Combustion, Chemistry and Accelerator Design

January 8, 2007

BERKELEY, Calif. — The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it has allocated a large amount of supercomputing resources from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of an initiative to accelerate scientific research and promote innovations in public institutions and private industry. Read More »

CRD Nanoscience Project Awarded 1.5 Million Hours under DOE INCITE Program

January 8, 2007

“Linear Scale Electronic Structure Calculations for Nanostructures,” led by Lin-Wang Wang of CRD's Scientific Computing Group, was awarded 1.5 million processor-hours on the Cray XT3 supercomputer at Oak Ridge. Co-investigators are Juan Meza and Zhengji Zhao, both of CRD. Read More »