conferred by Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center
- 2014
- The Planck Collaboration is the recipient of the 2014 NERSC Achievement Award for High-Impact Science. The Planck satellite, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, made news in 2013 when its science team released the most detailed map ever made of the Cosmic Microwave Background – the remnant radiation from the Big Bang – and refined some of the fundamental parameters of cosmology and physics. Long-awaited by many constituencies in cosmology, astrophysics, and theoretical physics, these results, comprising 31 scientific papers, capped a 10-year collaboration between NERSC and the Planck team, with Julian Borrill of Berkeley Lab’s Computational Cosmology Center serving as the principal investigator at NERSC.
