National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

The 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 and a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation.

 

Cray XT4 supercomputer cluster (Franklin) has 9,660 compute nodes. Each node has quad-core AMD processors running at 2.3 GHz. Franklin has 38,640 processor cores available for scientific applications, with 8 GB of memory per node and a total 350 TB of usable disk space.

 

credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer

 

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