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End-to-End Network Tuning Sends Data Screaming from NERSC to NOAA
When it comes to moving large datasets between DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and his home institution in Boulder, Colo., Gary Bates is no slouch. As an associate scientist in the Earth System Research Lab of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Bates has transferred hundreds of thousands of files to and from NERSC, as part of a “reforecasting” weather forecasting project. Read More »
“Flying Through the Known Universe” Screens at 3D Film Festival in L.A.
A 3D movie flight through hundreds of thousands of galaxies at considerably faster than the speed of light has its world-premiere screening at the 3D Film Festival this Thursday, Sept. 20 through Saturday, Sept. 22 in Los Angeles. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Computational Scientists to Help Illuminate Dark Universe
When it comes to moving large datasets between DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and his home institution in Boulder, Colo., Gary Bates is no slouch. As an associate scientist in the Earth System Research Lab of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Bates has transferred hundreds of thousands of files to and from NERSC, as part of a “reforecasting” weather forecasting project. Read More »
First NERSC Director John Killeen Dies at 87
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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 »