Energy production. Energy In physics, energy is the quantitative property that must be transferred to an object in order to perform work on, or to heat, the object. Energy is a conserved quantity; the law of conservation of energy states that energy can be converted in form, but not created or destroyed. The SI unit of energy is the joule, which is the energy transferred to an object by the work of moving it a distance of 1 metre against a force of 1 newton. Common forms of energy include the kinetic energy of a moving object, the potential energy stored
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and scientist Thomas Edison, which has a peak performance of 2.57 petaflop/s. Fully installed in 2014, Edison consists of 133,824 compute cores for running scientific applications, 357 terabytes of memory, and 7.56 petabytes of online disk storage with a peak I/O bandwidth of 168 gigabytes (GB) per second. Other systems at NERSC include: NERSC facilities are accessible through the Energy Sciences Network, or ESnet, which is also managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the Department of Energy. NERSC staff are leading a number of special projects to advance computational science while also helping prepare the broader research community for