The Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) Laboratory - a European Centre of Excellence

The Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) Laboratory maintains the largest repository for input and output files of all important computational materials science codes. From its open-access data it builds several Big-Data Services helping to advance materials science and engineering. NOMAD is a European Centre of Excellence (CoE), funded under the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme, which was established in fall 2015. Eight complementary research groups of highest scientific standing in computational materials science along with four high-performance computing (HPC) centers form the synergetic core of this CoE. NOMAD creates, collects, stores, and cleanses computational materials science data, derived from the most important materials science codes available today. In addition, the NOMAD Laboratory CoE develops tools for mining this data in order to find structure, correlations, and novel information that could not be discovered from studying smaller data sets. Together, the large volume of data and innovative tools will enable researchers in basic science and engineering to advance materials science, identify new physical phenomena, and help industry to improve existing and develop novel products and technologies.