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2 unusual facts about National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center


National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Hopper, which was ranked 5th on the TOP500 list of world's fastest supercomputers in November 2010 (19th as of November 2012).

NERSC was founded in 1974 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, then called the Controlled Thermonuclear Research Computer Center or CTRCC and consisting of a Control Data Corporation 6600 computer.


Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Additionally Berkeley Lab is host to six major National User Facilities: the Advanced Light Source, the National Center for Electron Microscopy, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the Energy Sciences Network, the Molecular Foundry, and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI).


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