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ESnet’s On-Demand Bandwidth Reservation Service Wins R&D 100 Award

July 8, 2013

ESnet's innovative bandwidth-sharing service, OSCARS 0.6, was recognized as one of R&D Magazine's top 100 technologies of 2013. Read More »

Thriving Tundra Bushes Add Fuel to Northern Thaw

June 28, 2013

Carbon-gobbling plants are normally allies in the fight to slow climate change, but in the frozen north, the effects of thriving vegetation may actually push temperatures higher. Read More »

Development of Advanced Materials Get Boost

June 24, 2013

The Materials Project—an open-access Google-like database for materials research developed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and MIT—is working with Intermolecular, Inc. to enhance the tool’s modeling capabilities and thus accelerate the speed of new material development by tenfold or more over conventional approaches. Read More »

Unusual Supernova is Doubly Unusual for Being Perfectly Normal

June 19, 2013

The Berkeley Lab-led Nearby Supernova Factory has built a benchmark atlas for normal Type Ia's, thanks to the "Backyard Supernova" it uncovered in 2011. Read More »

Cloud Computing Saves L.A.-sized Power Bill, Study Finds

June 11, 2013

A six-month study led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) with funding from Google has found that moving common software applications used by 86 million U.S. workers to the cloud could save enough electricity annually to power Los Angeles for a year. Read More »

Trillion Particle Simulation on Hopper Supercomputer Honored with Best Paper

May 23, 2013

An unprecedented trillion-particle simulation, which used more than 120,000 processors and generated approximately 350 terabytes of data, pushed the performace capability of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center’s (NERSC’s) Cray XE6 “Hopper” supercomputer to its limits. Read More »

University of Virginia, ESnet Team Up to Win Best Paper Award

May 20, 2013

A paper co-authored by engineers at ESnet and the University of Virginia was named Best Paper at the Sixth International Conference on Communication Theory, Reliability, and Quality of Service, held April 21-26 in Venice, Italy. Read More »

Math of Popping Bubbles in a Foam

May 9, 2013

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley have described mathematically the successive stages in the complex evolution and disappearance of foamy bubbles, a feat that could help in modeling industrial processes in which liquids mix or in the formation of solid foams such as those used to cushion bicycle helmets. Read More »

Berkeley Lab’s Aydın Buluç Wins 2013 DOE Early Career Award

May 7, 2013

Aydın Buluç of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Computational Research Division (CRD) has been honored with a 2013 Department of Energy’s (DOE) Early Career Award for his work on energy-efficient parallel graph and data mining algorithms. Read More »

Brain Visualization Prototype Holds Promise for Precision Medicine

May 3, 2013

The ability to combine all of a patient’s neurological test results into one detailed, interactive “brain map” could help doctors diagnose and tailor treatment for a range of neurological disorders, from autism to epilepsy. Read More »