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Could Material Defects Actually Improve Solar Cells?
Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are using supercomputers to study what may seem paradoxical: certain defects in silicon solar cells may actually improve their performance. Read More »
Multi-Scale Simulations Solve a Plasma Turbulence Mystery
Cutting-edge simulations run at NERSC over a two-year period are helping physicists better understand what influences the behavior of the plasma turbulence that is driven by the intense heating necessary to create fusion energy. Read More »
ESnet Bids Farewell to Greg Bell
Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences staff held a farewell party for Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Director Greg Bell. At the end of this month, Bell will be leaving ESnet and Berkeley Lab to be the full-time CEO of Broala, a company that deploys the Bro network monitoring software first developed at the lab. Read More »
New Study Details the Searing Future of Extreme Heat
Heat waves that typically strike once every 20 years could become yearly events across 60 percent of Earth's land surface by 2075, if greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked.
If stringent emissions-reductions measures are put in place, however, these extreme heat events could be reduced significantly. These are among the findings of a new study from Berkeley Lab and NCAR. Read More »
Updated Workflows for New LHC
To deal with the new data deluge from a recently upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC), researchers working on one of the facility's largest experiments—ATLAS—are relying on updated workflow management tools developed primarily by a group of researchers at the Berkeley Lab. Read More »
DOE Announces First ‘HPC for Manufacturing’ Industry Partnerships
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $3 million for 10 new projects that will enable private-sector companies to use high-performance computing resources at DOE's national laboratories to tackle major manufacturing challenges. Read More »
Media Advisory: DOE to Announce 10 HPC Projects to Advance U.S. Manufacturing and Energy Technology
On a Feb. 17 media call, David Danielson, Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), and Mark Johnson, Director of EERE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office will unveil new industry partners selected to receive $3 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Program at a Berkeley Lab press conference. Read More »
New Employee Profiles: February 2016
Introducing Brandon Cook, Mathieu Lobet, William Arndt, Stephen Leak and Dongeun Lee. Read More »
Assessing the Impact of Human-Induced Climate Change
Researchers at Berkeley Lab and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research develop and apply new method to determine whether specific climate impacts can be traced to human-caused emissions.
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