Accelerate Science on Perlmutter with NERSC

Towards exascale computing, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center has procured a ~100 PetaFLOP/s supercomputer called Perlmutter. This talk will give an overview of its architectural details and discuss what Perlmutter can offer to the scientific community especially to Material Science and Chemistry. These offerings not only include cutting-edge hardware and technology but also highly optimized software stack and expert user support. The NERSC Exascale Science Application Program (NESAP) provides resources such as hackathons with performance engineers, early access to hardware, and NERSC-funded PostDocs to select application teams, and lessons learned from these teams are then disseminated to the general community. NERSC also collaborates with vendors and other High Performance Computing (HPC) developers on math libraries, performance models and tools, compiler development and performance portability. With an emphasis on Material Science and Chemistry, we will pinpoint the opportunities that Perlmutter and NERSC can bring for exascale and beyond.