ABSTRACT
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is the primary scientific production computing facility for the Department of Energy's Office of Science. NERSC — originally called the Controlled Thermonuclear Research Computer Center — was founded in 1974 to support the fusion energy research community, the first time such a powerful computing resource was used for unclassified scientific computing. NERSC also has a history of collaborating with users to migrate their codes to next-generation architectures. The number of NERSC science users has been growing almost 350 per year since 2008, and one can expect this growth rate to continue. The Cascade processing cabinet has three individual chassis that support a backplane and up to 16 blades. Configurations of up to 16 compute blades or up to eight I/O blades and the remaining compute blades are supported.
