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ESnet Turns on 400G Circuits to Four DOE National Labs, Supercharging Multi-Site Scientific Research
Argonne, Oak Ridge, and Pacific Northwest National Laboratories and NERSC are first to have access to cutting-edge networking speeds — with more on the way. Read More »
Berkeley Lab to Partner with Jefferson Lab to Build $300+ Million High Performance Data Facility Hub
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the selection of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) as the lead for its new High Performance Data Facility Hub. Jefferson Lab will partner with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to form a joint project team led by Jefferson Lab. Read More »
2023 Egon Balas Prize Awarded to Berkeley Lab’s Stefan Wild
AMCR Director Stefan Wild was awarded the INFORMS Optimization Society’s 2023 Egon Balas Prize for his fundamental contributions to derivative-free optimization. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Staff Honored with Seven Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement
Seven Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement will be awarded to Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences staff at an awards ceremony held on Wednesday, November 8. The Director’s Awards program recognizes the significant achievements of Lab employees. Read More »
Engaging Neuroscience Community Remains Top of Mind for Neurodata Without Borders Team
As adoption of the NWB standard and software ecosystem grow, training and data sharing opportunities for the neuroscience community broaden worldwide. Read More »
Perlmutter Supports First Gravitational Lensing System Modeled on GPUs
Using the GIGA-Lens modeling code on the Perlmutter supercomputer at NERSC, a team of researchers has modeled a rare instance of strong gravitational lensing known as an Einstein Cross—likely the first such system to be modeled on GPUs and a demonstration of the promise of GPU-accelerated modeling. Read More »
Future of HPC Takes Shape in Monterey
Leaders in the data science community gathered at the annual Monterey Data Conference in August to exchange ideas about the latest advances and challenges in scientific data analysis and computing. Read More »
DOE's First ‘Intro to HPC’ Bootcamp Focuses on Energy Justice and a New Model for Workforce Development
Energy justice and workforce development were the driving themes of the DOE’s first “Introduction to High-Performance Computing Bootcamp,” held at Berkeley Lab August 7-11. The event was hosted by NERSC in collaboration with the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilities and the Sustainable Horizons Institute and funded by the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project. Read More »
Ana Kupresanin Tapped to Lead Berkeley Lab's Scientific Data Division
Ana Kupresanin, has been selected to serve as the next division director for Berkeley Lab's Scientific Data Division in the Computing Sciences Area. Her appointment will be effective October 9, 2023. The announcement follows an extensive international search. Read More »
Data Processing Pipeline Transforms Planck Mission Discovery
Reijo Keskitalo, a member of SciData’s Computational Cosmology Center, was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for “developing novel tools and approaches for maximizing NASA’s understanding of the universe from the Planck mission data.” Read More »