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A Clearer Picture of Carbon Sequestration
Despite progress in clean energy, Americans will continue to rely on fossil fuels for years to come. In fact, coal-, oil- and natural gas-fired power plants will generate 69 percent of U.S. electricity as late as 2035, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Read More »
Science Magazine's "Insights of the Decade"
In the first decade of this millennium, rapid scientific progress—resulting from new sensing, imaging, computing, and networking tools—has transformed whole areas of research. The December 17, 2010 special issue of Science magazine highlights ten “Insights of the Decade” that have fundamentally changed our thinking about our bodies and our universe. Four of those ten insights were enabled in part by facilities and research in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Computational Research Division (CRD). Read More »
The 20th Century Reanalysis Project: A Climate Time-Machine
From the hurricane that smashed into New York in 1938 to the impact of the Krakatoa eruption of 1883, the late 19th and 20th centuries are rich with examples of extreme weather. Now an international team of climatologists have created a comprehensive reanalysis of all global weather events from 1871 to the present day, and from the earth's surface to the jet stream level. Read More »
NERSC Users Unlock the Secret of a Rechargeable Heat Battery
Broadly speaking, there have been two approaches to capturing the sun's energy: photovoltaics, which turn the sunlight into electricity, or solar-thermal systems, which concentrate the sun's heat and use it to boil water to turn a turbine, or use the heat directly for hot water or home heating. Read More »
Planck Mission Peels Back Layers of Universe
The Planck mission released today a new catalog of data from its initial maps of the entire sky. The catalogue includes everything from thousands of never-before-seen dusty cocoons where stars are forming, to some of the most massive clusters of galaxies. Planck is a European Space Agency mission with significant contributions from NASA. Read More »
NERSC Announces Winners of Inaugural HPC Achievement Awards
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 »
DOE Booth Presentations by Berkeley Lab Staff
At the DOE booth (1939) at the SC14 conference, Berkeley Lab staff will give featured talks, present demonstrations and host roundtable discussions. Here’s a look at them” Read More »
Science Data Pilots: An Infrastructure to Harness Big Science Data
DOE highlights Science Data Pilots at SC14 booth #1939. Read More »
ESnet to Support Wide Range of Demos at SC14
When an estimated 10,000 high performance computing and networking experts from around the world converge on New Orleans for the SC14 conference looking for the latest developments, ESnet will play a major role in keeping everyone connected. A number of demonstrations at the conference will also be supported by ESnet, including a project led by Caltech to demonstrate terabit-level networking. Read More »
New Employee Profiles - December 2014
Introducing Tan Nguyen, Zach Harlan and Kerri Peyovich. Read More »