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ESnet Celebrates World IPv6 Launch
On Wednesday, a new Internet began. The change was subtle, but a new address system is making the the web faster, and enabling us to do things that were not possible until now. Read More »
Didem Unat, 2012 Alvarez Fellow
As the new 2012 Luis W. Alvarez Fellow, Didem Unat will be designing programming models for future exascale architectures, as part of the Hardware Software Co-design project in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division. Specifically, Unat will be evaluating the performance of fluid dynamics and combustion kernels on current architectures, and projecting their performance on future systems. She will be targeting data locality issues and providing novel programming concepts for improving performance on exascale systems. Read More »
Turning Water into Hydrogen Fuel
Build a surface of titanium and oxygen atoms arranged just so, coat with water, and add sunshine. Read More »
Learning From Photosynthesis to Create Electricity
Solar power could transform the energy landscape in the United States, reducing the nation's reliance on coal and natural gas for electricity. Today, however, solar power remains more expensive on average than fossil fuels. Read More »
Designers dig out drawing board in quest for exascale computing
Designers are rethinking computing in their quest for systems capable of calculations at exaflops speed. The architects of tomorrow’s exascale computers are designing systems that borrow from and contribute to an unlikely source: the consumer electronics industry. Read More »
Berkeley Lab-Mentored Team of High School Girls Wins National Contest to Develop Science Ed App
After taking top honors among their peers from Albany and Berkeley High Schools, a team of five girls from Albany High beat out 10 other teams from high schools around the country to win the 2012 Technovation Challenge. Read More »
New Accelerator Will Study Steps on the Path to Fusion Power
The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment, NDCX-II has recently marked successful completion. Read More »
Hank Childs Wins 2012 DOE Early Career Award
Hank Childs of the Computational Research Division’s Visualization Group has been honored with a 2012 DOE Early Career Award. Read More »
Floating Robots Track Water Flow, Stream Data via Smartphones
Two-thirds of the water in California passes through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, providing drinking water for 22 million Californians and supporting agriculture valued at tens of billions of dollars. Read More »
After 5 Years, NERSC’s Franklin Retires
This week, the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) retired one of its most scientifically prolific supercomputers to date—a Cray XT4 named Franklin, in honor of the United States’ pioneering scientist Benjamin Franklin. Read More »