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Simulations Shed Light on Pine Island Glacier’s Stability
The rapid retreat of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier has perhaps reached a point of no return, say three international modeling teams who ran a number of simulations to model the glacier’s behavior. To do this work, they relied on three different ice-flow models including BISICLES, which was developed by a collaboration that included Berkeley Lab computational scientists. Read More »
Disordered materials hold promise for better batteries
A lot of research is being done to facilitate the use of lithium batteries in electronic devices. Using supercomputers at NERSC, researchers have found a new avenue for such research: the use of disordered materials, which had generally been considered unsuitable for batteries. Read More »
The Great Light Sources of Europe
Last month, David Brown and Craig Tull of the Computational Research Division (CRD) and Alex Hexemer of the Advanced Light Source went on a 10-day tour of Europe's light sources. Their stops included, Garching, Karlsruhe, Villigen, Hamburg and Oxford. Read More »
Decoding the Molecular Mysteries of Photosynthesis
At first glance, photosynthesis seems elegant in its simplicity. Only three elements – light, water and carbon dioxide (CO2) – are needed for plants and other organisms to convert light into chemical energy, all in a matter of minutes. But upon closer inspection, the process is much more complicated. How, for example, does the plant know how much sunlight, water or CO2 it needs at any given point in time? And what if the system breaks – how does the plant repair it? Scientists are… Read More »
Saye and Sethian’s Bubble Visualization Honored by 2013 Visualization Challenge
A visualization created by Berkeley Lab mathematicians Robert Saye and James Sethian of soap bubbles bursting and reforming has won honorable mention in the 2013 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by Science magazine and the National Science Foundation. Read More »
NERSC Reveals 2014 Award Winners
NERSC announced the winners of its second annual High Performance Computing (HPC) Achievement Awards on Feb. 5, 2014, during the annual NERSC User Group meeting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Read More »
Memorial Gathering Pending for NERSC’s Michael Welcome
A celebration of life is pending for Michael Welcome, a member of NERSC’s Mass Storage Group. Welcome spent his entire career working for computing organizations at Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories. He was 56. Read More »
Februrary 2014 - New Employee Profiles
Introducing: You-Wei Cheah, Advanced Computing for Sciences (ACS) Department Read More »
Early Edison Users Deliver Results
Before any supercomputer is accepted at NERSC, scientists are invited to put the system through its paces during an “early science” phase. While the main aim of this period is to test the new system, many scientists are able to use the time to significantly advance their work. Read More »