The world's leading high performance computing center

The National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), a division of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at ORNL, provides state-of-the-art computational and data science infrastructure for technical and scientific professionals to accelerate scientific discovery and engineering advances across a broad range of disciplines.

Mission and Vision

The National Center for Computational Sciences is catalyzing the future of science through leadership computing and enabling scientific discovery through state-of-the-art computing resources and operational capability to scientists in government, academia, and industry.

We are world-leading experts in building, operating, and leveraging advanced computing systems for scientific discovery.

Get to Know Us

Meet the Director

Get to know NCCS director Gina Tourassi.

Our Leadership Team

Meet the team leading the nation’s top leadership computing center.

Our History

Three decades delivering supercomputers of unprecedented capability to the scientific community.

Community & Outreach

NCCS provides the tools for the HPC community to learn and explore ideas that will shape the future.