NERSC Technical Documentation
National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) provides High Performance Computing (HPC) and Storage facilities and support for research sponsored by, and of interest to, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science (SC).
Top documentation pages
- Getting Started at NERSC - Information for new and existing NERSC users
- Getting Help - How to get support
- QOSes and Charges - Compute job charge factors, run limits, submit limits
- Example Job Scripts - Curated example job scripts
- Basics of Running Jobs - Slurm commands, job script basics, submitting, updating jobs
- Jupyter - Interactive Jupyter Notebooks at NERSC
- Globus - High-performance data transfers
- Unix File Permissions - Summary of Unix file permission commands, Unix groups, and options for adjusting permissions at NERSC
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) - How to set up and use MFA for your NERSC account
Computing Resources
- Perlmutter - A Cray EX system with AMD EPYC CPUs and NVIDIA A100 GPUs
Other NERSC web pages
- NERSC Home page - NERSC news and information
- Center Status - Live status of NERSC services
- Help Portal - Open support tickets, make resource requests
- Jupyter - Access NERSC with interactive notebooks and more
- Iris - NERSC account management
!!! tip The NERSC Users Group (NUG) is an independent organization of users of NERSC resources.
All users are welcome to [join the NUG Slack
workspace](https://www.nersc.gov/users/nersc-user-group#e451).
!!! info “NERSC welcomes your contributions” This project is hosted on GitLab and your contributions are welcome!