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ESnet Launches Next-Generation Network to Enhance Collaborative Science

October 11, 2022

ESnet has formally unveiled ESnet6, the newest generation of the U.S. Department of Energy’s high-performance network dedicated to science. Read More »

Exabiome Brings Metagenomics Into the Exascale Era

October 10, 2022

Over the past seven years, the Berkeley Lab-led Exabiome project developed novel software tools that allow researchers to harness the power of cutting-edge high performance computers (and now exascale supercomputers) to solve previously infeasible problems in metagenomics. Read More »

GraphBLAST Targets GPU Graph Analytics Performance Issues

October 6, 2022

GraphBLAST, a new graph framework developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Davis, enhances the performance of the popular GraphBLAS collection of graph algorithm building blocks by overcoming design and performance challenges specific to GPU processors. Read More »

Sharing a Common Data Format for Neurophysiology

October 4, 2022

A team of researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), in collaboration with several experimental and computational neuroscientists, recently published their novel software package, Neurodata Without Borders (NWB), in the journal eLife. Read More »

Berkeley Lab Researchers Honored with Best Paper Award at QCE22

September 28, 2022

For the third year running, Berkeley Lab researchers snagged the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE22) Best Paper award. Read More »

A Summer at Berkeley Lab Spurs College Student’s Quantum Computing Aspirations

September 21, 2022

After two months interning at Berkeley Lab, quantum information science and technology have moved to the top of this college senior's list. Read More »

Quantum Computing Captivates NERSC Summer Student

September 12, 2022

For Dhilan Nag, a high school student from Texas, spending the summer working with NERSC developing hybrid classical-quantum algorithms has been inspirational. Read More »

Materials Science Simulation Achieves Extreme Performance at NERSC

September 6, 2022

Powered by the new Perlmutter system at NERSC at Berkeley Lab, a team of researchers led by Paderborn University scientists Thomas D. Kühne and Christian Plessl used a new mixed-precision method to conduct the first electronic structure simulation that executed more than quintillion operations per second. Read More »

Future-Oriented Report Contributes a Next Step in the Application of Computing to Scientific Discovery

August 30, 2022

Berkeley Lab's Shreyas Cholia contributed to a recent report about the use of automated workflows in science. Among other findings, the report urges more investment in developing standards and practices to assure data is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable, or FAIR. Read More »

NERSC Summer Student Enhances Genomic Sequencing Alignment on GPU Architectures

August 29, 2022

Ph.D. student LeAnn Lindsey spent this summer working at NERSC developing and applying a GPU-accelerated computer code that addresses a challenging problem in biological sequencing alignment. Read More »