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ESnet Contributes Ideas for Energy-Efficient Networking at International Roundtable at UCSB

February 15, 2013

Inder Monga, who has been advocating approaches to assess and improve the energy efficiency of the ESnet national science network for years, was invited to share his ideas with the world’s leading thinkers on energy-efficient networking in an invitation-only invent held in Santa Barbara, California. Read More »

NERSC Announces Winners of Inaugural HPC Achievement Awards

February 15, 2013

The Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) announced the winners of their inaugural High Performance Computing (HPC) Achievement Awards. Read More »

Berkeley Lab's CRD Contributes to Science Magazine's 'Breakthroughs of the Year'

February 14, 2013

Of the top 10 finalists for Science magazine's "Breakthrough of the Year" in 2012, Berkeley Lab computational researchers were major contributors to two accomplishments, including the winner: Discovery of the Higgs Boson. Read More »

NERSC Global Filesystem Played a Key Role in Discovery of the Last Neutrino Mixing Angle

February 7, 2013

The NERSC Global Filesystem infrastructure helped reveal a key, long-anticipated finding about mysterious neutrinos just a few months after the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment’s first detectors went online in southeast China. Read More »

Before the Supernova, a Massive Stellar Burst

February 6, 2013

An automated supernova hunt is shedding new light on the death sequence of massive stars—specifically, the kind that self-destruct in Type IIn supernova explosions. Read More »

NERSC Staff Participate in Regional Science Bowl

February 5, 2013

High School students from all corners of the San Francisco Bay Area flocked to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Saturday, February 2, 2013 to battle in the Department of Energy’s Regional Science Bowl—an academic competition that tests students' knowledge in all areas of science. Read More »

NERSC Supercomputers Help Explain the Last Big Freeze

January 31, 2013

Using supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), researchers may have finally solved the mystery of a Big Freeze 13,000 years ago. Read More »

CRD’s Daniel Burke Elevated to IEEE Senior Member

January 24, 2013

Daniel Burke, who joined the Computational Research Division last fall as a project manager for the new Computer Architecture Lab, has been elevated to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE this year. Read More »

ESnet, Globus Online and IU Demonstrate more Reliable Data Transfers

January 24, 2013

A collaboration between the Department of Energy’s ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) and Globus Online, together with Indiana University (IU), is already producing proof-of-concept demonstrations of moving large scientific datasets. Read More »

ESnet’s New Map Gives Up-to-the-Minute Network Data

January 16, 2013

A new interactive map developed by the Department of Energy’s ESnet (Energy Sciences Network) provides a detailed, up-to-the-minute look at the level of traffic traversing the various sections of the network as it connects 40 research sites around the country. Read More »