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Lab Team Proves Fastest in Competition to Access and Process Huge Amount of Data
Sitting in the cavernous and nearly deserted Dallas Convention Center on a cool November evening, a team of four Berkeley Lab computer scientists anxiously awaited their chance to try to overwhelm one of the biggest communications network in the nation. The team was going to demonstrate Visapult, a prototype application and framework for performing remote and distributed visualization of scientific data. Problems with network equipment kept delaying their start time, pushing it later and later… Read More »
Berkeley Lab Buys 160-Processor Cluster Computer to Advance Scientific Computing and Research
In what could be a glimpse into the future of high-performance computing, Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences will buy and operate a 160-processor cluster computer to assess whether such system can meet the day-to-day production demands of a scientific computing center. Clusters are assemblies of commodity computers designed and networked to operate as a single system. By using off-the-shelf components, clusters can provide a cost-effective balance between price and computer performance. To date,… Read More »
Berkeley Lab Wins Network Challenge at SC2000
The Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences organization again demonstrated its achievements and leadership in high-performance computing and networking at the annual SC conference held last week in Dallas.The SC conference, formerly known as Supercomputing, drew 5,200 attendees and 153 exhibitors, including vendors and research organizations, such as the DOE labs. Berkeley Lab’s booth highlighted the release of new software, the development of technologies to advance DOE’s Science Grid linking… Read More »
Berkeley Lab's David Quarry to Serve as Chief Architect for LHC ATLAS Experiment
David Quarrie, leader of the High Energy and Nuclear Physics Software Group in NERSC, has accepted a two-year assignment as chief architect for the ATLAS high-energy physics experiment. ATLAS is an international research program to be carried out at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland beginning in 2005. Quarrie’s new position will occupy about 50 percent of his time, and he will also continue working on software efforts related to the BaBar project at the Stanford Linear… Read More »
Alexandre Chorin Honored for Three Decades Of Intellectual Leadership In Studying The Scientific Puzzle Of Turbulent Flows
For more than 30 years, Dr. Alexandre Chorin has worked to develop computational methods for solving problems in fluid mechanics, with the hope that they will eventually lead to an understanding of the most difficult problem of applied mathematics — the problem of turbulence. What makes the turbulence problem so compelling, in addition to its practical importance, Chorin says, is that the basic equations that describe turbulence are well-known and simple, yet their solutions are incredibly… Read More »
ESnet Awards Qwest $50 Million Contract to Support DOE's Scientific Communications Network
NOTE: This archived news story is made available as-is. It may contain references to programs, people, and research activities that are no longer active at Berkeley Lab. It may include links to web pages that no longer exist or refer to documents no longer available. The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (Esnet) this week announced that it has awarded a $50 million contract to Qwest Communications International Inc. to support ESnet for up to seven years. Under the contract,… Read More »