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Berkeley Lab’s RAGE Telepresence Robot Captures R&D100 Award
Berkeley Lab’s Remote Access Grid Entity, a remote-controlled robot providing two-way interaction via the global Access Grid, has been named a winner of the 2002 R&D100 Award presented by R&D Magazine. Every year since 1963, R&D Magazine has showcased the 100 best ideas in industrial and technical innovation through the annual awards program known informally as "the Oscars of Invention." The RAGE robot was conceived of, designed and built by staff members from the Lab’s NERSC… Read More »
Andreas Adelmann Is NERSC's First Alvarez Fellow in Computational Science
While his work in accelerator modeling on supercomputers definitely puts his professional life in the fast lane, Andreas Adelmann and his family are finding it a challenge to adjust to the fast-paced Bay Area lifestyle. Read More »
Lab Team Again Proves Best at Moving Massive Amounts of Data across Networks
For the second year in a row, a team led by high-performance computing experts from Berkeley Lab took top honors in a contest to move the most data across the network built around SC, the annual conference of high-performance computing and networking, held last month in Denver. The winning application was a live visualization of a simulation of colliding black holes. SC2001, held this week in Denver, marked the second staging of the Network Bandwidth Challenge in which researchers with… Read More »
RAGE Rolls Out in Denver
At the SC2001 supercomputing conference held in Denver, Colorado, November 12-16, visitors are likely to encounter a roaming robot named RAGE. Despite its fearsome moniker, RAGE is intended to be a convivial sort of critter, built specifically for the purpose of extending the reach of the group-communication tool known as the Access Grid to people and events far from the Grid's fixed "nodes." Read More »
Berkeley Lab to Present HPC Experts in Booth Talks at SC2001
Some of the nation’s leading experts in high-performance computing and computational science will be featured in a series of talks presented in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory booth at the SC2001 conference to be held Nov. 12-16 in Denver. Topics to be covered include the future of computing at the Department of Energy’s flagship unclassified computing facility, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the development of Grid tools, and the story behind Berkeley… Read More »
Berkeley Lab Receives Multi-Million-Dollar Funding to Develop New Computational Tools for Advancing Scientific Research
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will help lead the development of a new generation of tools and technologies for scientific computing under a new $57 million program announced today (August 14) by the DOE. Under the program, called Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC), Berkeley Lab scientists will lead six of the projects and are key partners in another six projects. Berkeley Lab has received approximately $1.9 million… Read More »
Berkeley Lab Hosts National Academy Symposium on Future of Supercomputers
About three dozen members of the prestigious National Academy of Engineering visited Berkeley Lab on June 8 to attend a symposium entitled “Do Supercomputers Have a Future?” The invitation-only symposium featured experts from the fields of supercomputer manufacturing, design and utilization – Burton Smith, chief scientist of Cray Inc., David Patterson, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, and Bill McCurdy, head of Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences and a chemical physicist who… Read More »
Students from All Walks of Life on Board as Interns
An internship program in desktop support offered by the Computer Infrastructure Support Department is literally drawing students from all walks of life. George Eaton’s career path led him to a long stint in restaurant management before he made it to the Lab. Brendan Kelly had earned his degree at Cal and was out in the working world when he decided to go back to school. Bill Ou’s main experiences with electronics had been as a salesman. Nguyen Hua had previously been a summer intern at the… Read More »
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 »