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First NERSC Director John Killeen Dies at 87

August 24, 2012

John Killeen, the founding director of what is now known as the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), died August 15, 2012 at age 87. Read More »

Supernovae of the Same Brightness, Cut from Different Cosmic Cloth

August 23, 2012

Exploding stars called Type 1a supernovae are ideal for measuring cosmic distance because they are bright enough to spot across the Universe and have relatively the same luminosity everywhere. Read More »

What Are the Computational Keys to Future Scientific Discoveries?

August 23, 2012

A new camera at the hard x-ray tomography beamline of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Advanced Light Source (ALS) allows scientists to study a variety of structures as a function of time—from bones to rocks, plants, and even metallic alloys—in unprecedented detail. Read More »

Sudip Dosanjh Named New NERSC Director

August 22, 2012

Sudip Dosanjh, a leader in extreme-scale computing at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, has been named director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read More »

Bringing The Review of Particle Physics Online

August 22, 2012

Are you interested in exotic particles, but have not gotten around to reading every particle physics journal published in the last 55 years to learn everything there is to know about them? Not to worry, the 2012 edition of The Review of Particle Physics contains everything you need to know. This 1,526-page “Bible of particle physics” includes 2,658 new measurements from 644 papers—in addition to the 29,495 measurements from 8,300 papers that appeared in previous editions. Read More »

Big data means big issues for exascale visualization

August 8, 2012

When exascale computers begin calculating at a billion, billion operations each second, gaining insights from the massive datasets generated by the simulations they run will be a huge challenge. - See more at: http://ascr-discovery.science.doe.gov/newfaces/childs1.shtml#sthash.kqMLIpOx.dpuf Read More »

Julian Borrill Unveils Cambridge’s Cosmology Supercomputer

August 7, 2012

Julian Borrill, co-leader of the Computational Cosmology Center in the Computational Research Division, gave an invited talk at the Numerical Cosmology 2012 conference held July 17-20 in Cambridge, England, and also chaired the session in which the university’s new supercomputer was officially launched. Read More »

Earth System Grid Federation: A Modern Day ‘Silk Road’ for Climate Data

July 30, 2012

Centuries ago, civilizations grew and flourished along trade routes like the Silk Road, where diverse populations shared knowledge and goods. Back then, information traveling on these networks by horse or camel took months, often years, to reach its destination. Read More »

New Computer Model Pinpoints Prime Materials for Carbon Capture

July 17, 2012

Approximately 45 percent of electricity used in the United States is produced by coal-burning power plants that spew carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere and contribute to global warming. Read More »

A new approach to water desalination

July 12, 2012

The availability of fresh water is dwindling in many parts of the world, a problem that is expected to grow with populations. Read More »