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Kamesh Madduri Is Named 2008 Alvarez Fellow
Kamesh Madduri’s interest in computers ignited at age 10, when the first wave of PCs arrived in India and gave him a new medium to play games on. Eventually this fascination grew to include programming, computer science, and finally supercomputers. Read More »
Technology for Speeding Up Searches of Large Databases Wins R&D 100 Award
FastBit, an indexing technology that allows users to search massive datasets up to 40 times faster than the best commercially available tools, has been recognized with a 2008 R&D 100 Award. R&D Magazine will present the award to FastBit developers Kesheng “John” Wu, Arie Shoshani, Ekow Otoo, and Kurt Stockinger of the Scientific Data Management Group in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division, at a special October ceremony in Chicago, Ill. (Stockinger has since… Read More »
A Computer for the Clouds
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Complexity
However pleasing to the eye, clouds are a computational headache because their numerous features can either accelerate or retard warming. These altocumulus clouds form in midatmosphere, at 2000 to 6000 meters.
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Juan Meza Wins 2008 Blackwell-Tapia Prize and SACNAS Distinguished Scientist Award
Dr. Juan C. Meza, Department Head and Senior Scientist for the High Performance Computing Research Department in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been named recipient of two awards: the Blackwell-Tapia Prize and the SACNAS Distinguished Scientist Award. Read More »
FastBit Bitmap Index Wins 2008 R&D 100 Award for Technology Advances
Four researchers in the Scientific Data Management (SDM) Group in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division (CRD) will be awarded one of the 2008 R&D 100 Awards for developing the FastBit indexing technology. The award, given by R&D Magazine to the 100 top new technologies of the year, will go to Kesheng “John” Wu, the key developer; Arie Shoshani, SDM Group Lead; Ekow Otoo; and former SDM member Kurt Stockinger, now working at Credit Suisse in Zürich, Switzerland. Read More »
North America Faces More Extreme Weather from Global Warming
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research today released a scientific assessment that provides the first comprehensive analysis of observed and projected changes in weather and climate extremes in North America and U.S. territories. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change previously evaluated extreme weather and climate events on a global basis in this same context. However, there has not been a specific assessment across North America prior to this report. Read More »
High Performance Humanities
On April 21, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced something new: they would be teaming up with the U.S. Department of Energy to offer one million CPU hours on supercomputers at NERSC for use by researchers in the humanities. The effort is managed out of the NEH's new Office of Digital Humanities, created recently to recognize the increasing importance of computing in what has traditionally been a very old-fashioned area of research....
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Living the Vision: A Profile of Kathy Yelick
The February / March 2008 issue of the European magazine Scientific Computing World features a profile of NERSC Division Director Kathy Yelick titled "Living the Vision." Read More »
Berkeley Lab Researchers Propose a New Breed of Supercomputers for Improving Global Climate Predictions
BERKELEY, Calif. — Three researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have proposed an innovative way to improve global climate change predictions by using a supercomputer with low-power embedded microprocessors, an approach that would overcome limitations posed by today’s conventional supercomputers. Read More »
CS Launches Diversity Committee to Improve Hiring of Women and Other Under-represented Groups
Computing Sciences researchers are looking to undertake initiatives to work on increasing diversity and to encourage K-12 students to study and pursue a career in math and science.They formed the Computing Sciences Diversity Committee to provide a forum for researchers and other staff to brainstorm and carry out ideas that promote diversity. The committee will also coordinate the various diversity-related efforts that many researchers and managers already have undertaken.Members of the… Read More »