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Wes Bethel is ACM Distinguished Scientist
Wes Bethel, leader of the Visualization Group in the Computational Research Division, has been named an ACM Distinguished Scientist. Read More »
Kathy Yelick Named ACM Fellow
Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences Kathy Yelick has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Read More »
Novel Tools and a Pharmaceutical Screening Strategy to Capture CO²
Today, crystalline porous materials, like zeolites and metal organic frameworks (MOFs), are widely used in industry to purify water and separate gases, among other things. But scientists believe that these structures have the potential to do a lot more—like capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the flue-gas emissions of coal-burning power plants before it reaches the atmosphere and contributes to global warming. Until recently, one of the major challenges to using these materials for CO2… Read More »
John Shalf Is Named Chief Technology Officer for NERSC
John Shalf has been named the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) by NERSC Director Sudip Dosanjh. Read More »
Study Strengthens Link Between Climate Change, Human Activities
New research shows some of the clearest evidence yet of a discernible human influence on atmospheric temperature. Published online in the Nov. 29 early edition of the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the study compared 20 of the latest climate models against 33 years of satellite data. When human factors were included in the models, they followed the pattern of temperature changes observed by satellite. When the same simulations were run without considering human… Read More »
Edison Phase 1 Arrives at NERSC
Phase 1 of NERSC's newest supercomputer, named Edison, was delivered on November 27, 2012. The architecture is a Cray XC30 ("Cascade") and it will be installed in two phases. When it is fully installed in 2013, Edison will have a peak performance of more than 2 petaflops (1015 floating point operations per second). The integrated storage system will have more than 6 petabytes of storage with an I/O bandwidth of 140 gigabytes per second. The system is named after U.S. inventor and … Read More »
ESnet5 Deployment Team Named as 'Fierce' Innovators
The ESnet5 Deployment Team, charged with rolling out the 100 Gigabit per second national network that entered production in November, has been named to the first annual "Fierce 15" list of the top federal employees and teams who have done particularly innovative things. Read More »
Modeling the Breaking Points of Metallic Glasses
Metallic glass alloys (or liquid metals) are three times stronger than the best industrial steel, but can be molded into complex shapes with the same ease as plastic. These materials are highly resistant to scratching, denting, shattering and corrosion. So far, they have been used in a variety of products from golf clubs to aircraft components. And, some smartphone manufacturers are even looking to cast their next-generation phone cases out of it. But despite their potential, the mechanical… Read More »
Globus Online and ESnet Partner for Scientific Data Management
SALT LAKE CITY, UT – Globus Online and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) today announced a new collaboration to help scientists better manage the growing amounts of data they need to move, share, and analyze worldwide. As partners, the organizations plan to develop joint outreach and educational programs designed for small and medium science collaborations that have not traditionally used data transfer tools and advanced networking as part of their workflow, but who will soon require… Read More »
Berkeley Lab Staff Speak at Albany High's Annual Career Day
Computing Sciences staff members and other Berkeley Lab researchers were among the 40 professionals who discussed their work at Albany High School's annual Career Day on November 14, 2012. Dan Martin of CRD's Applied Numerical Algorithms Group discussed his work on BISICLES, a project to model the shrinking ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland. Peter Nugent of CRD's Computational Cosmology Center, described the search for supernovae and how they can be used to learn more about the… Read More »