21st Century Complete Guide to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) - Department of Energy at Berkeley Lab for Climate, Nanotech, Physics, Space Research (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date and comprehensive electronic book on CD-ROM presents an enormous library of government documents and publications covering all aspects of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), 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. The more than 2000 computational scientists who use NERSC perform basic scientific research across a wide range of disciplines. These disciplines include climate modeling, research into new materials, simulations of the early universe, analysis of data from high energy physics experiments, investigations of protein structure, and a host of other scientific endeavors. NERSC is known as one of the best run scientific computing facilities in the world. While NERSC provides some of the largest computing and storage systems available anywhere, what distinguishes NERSC is its success in creating an environment that makes these resources effective for scientific research. NERSC systems are reliable and secure, and provide a state-of-the- art scientific development environment with the tools needed by the diverse community of NERSC users. NERSC provides intellectual services that allow computational scientists to be more effective -- consultants who are experts in computational science and performance tuning, visualization assistance, training, customized support, and other services. NERSC resources include Franklin, a Cray XT4 supercomputer, which will arrive at NERSC in early 2007. Composed of AMD dual core processors running at 2.6 GHz, it will have 19,344 compute CPUs, each with 2 GB of memory per CPU, and will deliver sustained performance of at least 16 teraflop/s (trillion calculations per second). The system will have a bisection bandwidth of 6.3 TB/s and 402 TB of usable disk. Contents include: Technical Reports, Annual Reports, Science Driven Systems Seaborg, Bassi, Jacquard, DaVinci, PDSF, NERSC Global Filesystem; Self-Assessments.