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ESnet’s Science DMZ Breaks Down Barriers, Speeds up Science

September 16, 2015

Science DMZ Special Report »Case Study: University of Utah »Case Study: General Atomics From individual universities around the country to a consortium of research institutions stretching the length of the west coast, networking teams are deploying an infrastructure architecture known as the Science DMZ to help researchers make productive use of ever-increasing data flows. The Science DMZ traces its name to an element of network security architecture. In a security context, a DMZ or… Read More »

Berkeley Lab Joins DOE’s New HPC4Manufacturing Program

September 15, 2015

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is collaborating with Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge national laboratories on a new Department of Energy (DOE) program designed to fund and foster public-private R&D projects that enhance U.S. competitiveness in clean energy manufacturing. The High Performance Computing for Manufacturing Program (HPC4Mfg), announced this week during the third annual American Energy and Manufacturing Competitiveness Summit (AEMC), couples U.S. Read More »

Five CS Staff Honored with Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement

September 14, 2015

Five employees in the Computing Sciences organization staff members are recipients of this year’s Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement,Five CS Staff Honored with Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement. This year's recipeints include Deb Agarwal, Eli Dart, Brent Draney, James Sethian and Lynn Rippe. Read More »

Celeste: A New Model for Cataloging the Universe

September 9, 2015

A Berkeley Lab-based research collaboration of astrophysicists, statisticians and computer scientists has developed Celeste, a new statistical analysis model designed to enhance one of modern astronomy’s most time-tested tools: sky surveys. Read More »

CT Scan of Earth Links Mantle Plumes with Volcanic Hotspots

September 2, 2015

University of California, Berkeley, seismologists have produced for the first time a sharp, three-dimensional scan of Earth’s interior that conclusively connects plumes of hot rock rising through the mantle with surface hotspots that generate volcanic island chains like Hawaii, Samoa and Iceland. Read More »

New Employee Profiles - September 2015

September 1, 2015

Introducing Taylor Barnes, Yunjie Liu, Jean-Philippe Peraud and Ankit Bhagatwala. Read More »

CRD’s Oliker New Lead for DOE’s SUPER Project

August 19, 2015

Leonid “Lenny” OIiker of the Computational Research Division has stepped in as the leader of the Institute for Sustained Performance, Energy, and Resilience, or SUPER, an HPC performance project that's part of DOE's SciDAC Program. Read More »

Ice Sheet Model Reveals Most Comprehensive Projections for West Antarctica’s Future

August 18, 2015

A new international study is the first to use a high-resolution, large-scale computer model to estimate how much ice the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could lose over the next couple of centuries, and how much that could add to sea-level rise. Read More »

CRD’s Buluç Receives 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers

August 13, 2015

Aydin Buluç of the Computational Research Division has been named a recipient of the 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers. Buluç is one of three recipients of this year’s award, which will be presented at the SC15 conference in November. Read More »

NERSC's ‘Shifter’ Makes Container-based HPC a Breeze

August 11, 2015

To facilitate the use of container-based computing in HPC, NERSC is enabling Docker-like container technology on its systems through its new, customized - and soon to be open source - software tool, Shifter. Read More »