NCRC
About NCRC
Modeling and simulation are essential to nuclear energy innovation, as well as the continued safe, secure and efficient operation of existing nuclear systems.
The Nuclear Computational Resource Center (NCRC) was established at INL to provide easy access to computational tools, high performance computing (HPC) resources and training. The target audience includes, but is not limited to, users from the private sector, national laboratories, universities and federal agencies.
Available computational tools include INL’s extensive library of software based on the MOOSE modeling and simulation framework and relevant to nuclear energy, advanced manufacturing and environmental science applications. Examples of nuclear energy-related applications include:
- Modeling the behavior of materials in harsh environments (irradiation and high temperatures)
- Analyzing the performance of existing light water reactors and advanced nuclear reactors
- Multiscale, multiphysics analysis of nuclear fuel performance
Software and Computing
Researchers can request access to software and high performance computing capabilities.
Computing at INL
Idaho National Laboratory continues to expand the use of HPC and computational science to achieve the vision to change the world’s energy future and secure our nation’s critical infrastructure. Our focus on computing has expanded through the establishment of the Advanced Scientific Computing Division in August 2018, the September 2019 opening of the Collaborative Computing Center (C3) funded by the state of Idaho, and the December 2019 installation of Sawtooth, a 6-petaflop supercomputer supported by the Department of Energy through the Nuclear Science User Facilities.
Our Supercomputers
Sawtooth: INL’s newest supercomputer came online in late 2019. It operates with a LINPACK rating of 5.6 petaflops, which ranked #37 on the November 2019 TOP500 list. The HPE SGI 8600 system comprises 99,792 cores with 403 TB of memory. The system also includes dedicated GPU capability.
Lemhi: The Lemhi supercomputer is a Dell 6420-based system operating on an OmniPath fat tree network. It came online in the fall of 2018, containing 20,160 cores and 94 total terabytes of memory. Lemhi is rated at 1 petaflop and ranked #427 on the November 2018 TOP500 list.
Falcon: Falcon’s SGI ICE-X distributed memory system comprises 34,992 cores, with each node containing dual Xeon E5-2695 v4 processors. It is rated at 1.1 petaflops and includes 121 TB of memory. It ranked #97 on the November 2014 TOP500 list when it was brought online.
