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Erich Strohmaier and the TOP500: A list that’s taken on a life of its own
After completing his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Heidelberg, Erich Strohmaier didn’t have much time to ponder his next career move – he had exactly one day off before starting a new job at the University of Mannheim. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Staff to Share Expertise, Experiences at 2012 International Supercomputing Conference
Next week, an estimated 2,500 HPC experts from around the world will convene in Hamburg, Germany for the 2102 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC'12). Among the presenters will be six Berkeley Lab researchers. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Names Greg Bell as Director of New Scientific Networking Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) today announced that Gregory Bell has been named director of the Scientific Networking Division, and head of the U.S. Department of Energy's ESnet, or Energy Sciences Network. Bell, who has held both positions on an acting basis since November 2011, is the fourth person to lead ESnet since the organization was created in 1986. Read More »
Scientists Help Define the Healthy Human Microbiome
You’re outnumbered. There are ten times as many microbial cells in you as there are your own cells. Read More »
Using NERSC Systems, Physicists Close In on a Rare-Particle Decay Process
With help from supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the Enriched Xenon Observatory experiment (EXO-200) has placed the most stringent constraints yet on the nature of a process called neutrinoless double beta decay. Read More »
ESnet Celebrates World IPv6 Launch
On Wednesday, a new Internet began. The change was subtle, but a new address system is making the the web faster, and enabling us to do things that were not possible until now. Read More »
Didem Unat, 2012 Alvarez Fellow
As the new 2012 Luis W. Alvarez Fellow, Didem Unat will be designing programming models for future exascale architectures, as part of the Hardware Software Co-design project in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division. Specifically, Unat will be evaluating the performance of fluid dynamics and combustion kernels on current architectures, and projecting their performance on future systems. She will be targeting data locality issues and providing novel programming concepts for improving performance on exascale systems. Read More »
Turning Water into Hydrogen Fuel
Build a surface of titanium and oxygen atoms arranged just so, coat with water, and add sunshine. Read More »
Learning From Photosynthesis to Create Electricity
Solar power could transform the energy landscape in the United States, reducing the nation's reliance on coal and natural gas for electricity. Today, however, solar power remains more expensive on average than fossil fuels. Read More »
Designers dig out drawing board in quest for exascale computing
Designers are rethinking computing in their quest for systems capable of calculations at exaflops speed. The architects of tomorrow’s exascale computers are designing systems that borrow from and contribute to an unlikely source: the consumer electronics industry. Read More »