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Data Processing Pipeline Transforms Planck Mission Discovery
Reijo Keskitalo, a member of SciData’s Computational Cosmology Center, was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for “developing novel tools and approaches for maximizing NASA’s understanding of the universe from the Planck mission data.” Read More »
Epidemiological Modeling in the Exascale Era
With funding from DOE’s BRaVE initiative, the Berkeley Lab-led EMERGE project will expand the capabilities of ExaEpi, an exascale-ready epidemiological agent-based model to target six diseases. Read More »
SULI Program Helps Computing Sciences Area Summer Interns Break New Ground
The DOE SULI program is designed to encourage undergraduate students from two- and four-year colleges, post-baccalaureates, and graduate students to pursue STEM careers by providing research internships at DOE national laboratories. Read More »
NERSC Summer Interns Feel the Thrill of HPC
https://www.nersc.gov/news-publications/nersc-news/nersc-center-news/2023/nersc-summer-interns-feel-the-thrill-of-hpc/ Read More »
Berkeley Lab Hosts a Record 17 CSGF Fellows
This year, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) welcomed 17 Department of Energy (DOE) Computational Science Graduate Fellows (CSGF) — a record for any DOE Lab in a calendar year. Read More »
AMReX: A Performance-Portable Framework for Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Applications
Performance, portability, and broad functionality are all key features of the AMReX software framework, which was developed by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Argonne National Laboratory as part of the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Exascale Computing Project (ECP) AMReX Co-Design Center.[1],[2]The ECP AMReX Co-Design Center ensures that this popular and heavily utilized software framework for massively… Read More »
“Debfest,” Celebrating Deb Agarwal’s Contributions to Science and Berkeley Lab Culture
On Friday, July 7, former Scientific Data Division Director Deb Agarwal’s family, friends, and colleagues gathered at UC Berkeley’s Faculty Club to celebrate her 29-year career and contributions to Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences area—an event jokingly dubbed “Debfest.” Read More »
Using Deep Learning to Better Assess Lithium Metal Battery Performance
A team of researchers from CAMERA, Berkeley Lab, UC Irvine, and Argonne have developed batteryNET, a deep learning algorithm that enhances the assessment of lithium agglomeration in solid-state lithium metal batteries. Read More »
Craig Leres Retires after 40+ Years with Berkeley Lab
Craig Leres, a hardware, operating systems, and networking engineer in the Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Area’s Scientific Data Division and the Lab’s Cyber Security Group, is retiring this July after 40-plus years at the Lab. Read More »
James Botts Reflects on a Decade at the State of the Art
NERSC HPC engineer James Botts retired June 29 as the longest-serving member of the Computational Systems Group. After a decade at NERSC, he reflects on his career, changes in HPC, and what comes next. Read More »