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NERSC, ESnet, Cray Add Software Defined Networking to Cori
Berkeley Lab computer scientists and network engineers are exploring new ways to more efficiently move data in and out of Cori, NERSC's newest supercomputer. First up: software-defined networking. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Staff Add Expertise to SC16 Technical Program
Berkeley Lab staff will contribute significantly to the SC16 Technical Program, conveying expertise through research papers and posters, leading tutorials, organizing workshops and participating in panel discussions and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. Here’s a list of activities. Read More »
Computing Sciences Staff Honored with Director’s Achievement Awards
Several staff in the Computing Sciences organization are recipients of this year’s Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement. Read More »
Multiscale HPC Captures Photovoltaics at the Nanoscale
Advances in ultrafast spectroscopy experiments and high performance computing are revolutionizing the scientific community’s ability to study the physical processes that occur in solar cells at short length and time scales. Read More »
Seymour Cray’s Second Cousin Pays a Visit to NERSC, LBNL
When Bryce Hoflund, a relative of supercomputer pioneer Seymour Cray was preparing to attend a conference in Berkeley on food policy, she decided to see if she could also visit Berkeley Lab and, particularly, NERSC. Read More »
Berkeley Lab 2016 Alvarez Fellow: Matthew Zahr
Berkeley Lab’s 2016 Alvarez Fellow, Matthew Zahr will be developing efficient, projection-based methods for solving optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations in the Computational Research Division (CRD) Math group. Read More »
CRD’s Julian Borrill Receives NASA's Exceptional Public Achievement Medal
Julian Borrill, leader of the Computational Cosmology Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been awarded the NASA Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for "conceiving and implementing the mission-critical high performance computing system for Planck data analysis." The medal was presented to Borrill in an Oct. 13 ceremony at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. For the past 15 years, Borrill has worked on using computing resources at the National… Read More »
Brain Modulyzer Provides Interactive Window Into the Brain
A new tool developed at Berkeley Lab allows researchers to interactively explore the hierarchical processes that happen in the brain when it is resting or performing tasks. Scientists also hope that the tool can shed some light on how neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s spread throughout the brain. Read More »
Lab Staff Add Computing, Networking, Physics Expertise to 2016 CHEP Conference
The 22nd International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics, CHEP 2016, opens today, Oct. 10, in San Francisco, co-hosted by Berkeley Lab and SLAC. The Oct. 10-14 conference, co-chaired by Craig Tull of the Computational Research Division (CRD), will feature a number of presentations by staff from NERSC, CRD, ESnet and Physics. On Wednesday afternoon, conference attendees will have the option of visiting the lab for a tour of NERSC and ESnet. The CHEP… Read More »
The Incredible Shrinking Particle Accelerator
Particle accelerators are on the verge of transformational breakthroughs—and advances in computing power and techniques are a big part of the reason. Read More »