Materials Project
By computing properties of all known materials, the Materials Project aims to remove guesswork from materials design in a variety of applications. Experimental research can be targeted to the most promising compounds from computational data sets. Researchers will be able to data-mine scientific trends in materials properties. By providing materials researchers with the information they need to design better, the Materials Project aims to accelerate innovation in materials research. Supercomputing clusters at national laboratories provide the infrastructure that enables our computations, data, and algorithms to run at unparalleled speed. We principally use the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's NERSC Scientific Computing Center and Computational Research Division, but we are also active with Oak Ridge's OLCF Argonne's ALCF and San Diego's SDSC Computational materials science is now powerful enough that it can predict many properties of materials before those materials are ever synt