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Combined 'SuperLab' Demonstrates Unique Hybrid Power Plant
For 60 minutes in January 2023, a power plant like no other existed in the U.S. Mountain West. It contained a solar array, lithium-ion battery, hydrogen electrolyzers, and a nuclear reactor, all coordinating to provide reliable power. Even more unusual, the plant combined actual and simulated technologies hundreds of miles apart. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Researchers Awarded ISQED’23 Best Paper
The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’23) recognized researchers in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Computer Architecture Group with a Best Paper Award for “An Area Efficient Superconducting Unary CNN Accelerator.”
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New Math Methods and Perlmutter HPC Combine to Deliver Record-Breaking ML Algorithm
Using the Perlmutter supercomputer at NERSC, researchers at Berkeley Lab have devised a new mathematical method for analyzing extremely large datasets—and, in the process, demonstrated proof of principle on a record-breaking dataset of more than five million points. Read More »
Improving Training for Scientific Machine Learning
In the world of scientific machine learning (SciML), scientists are beginning to embrace the use of neural networks as a way to accelerate simulations. At the heart of deep learning algorithms, neural networks provide a mechanism to encode complex dependency structures, using many connected node layers to transform data into learned features to be used for a wide range of scientific tasks. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Works Toward a Connected Future for Science
Superfacility is a conceptual model of seamless connection between experimental facilities and high performance computing resources—an integrated and automated system for gathering, transporting, and analyzing scientific data in real time. Berkeley Lab is working to standardize, automate, and scale up the processes needed for superfacility onsite, across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and beyond. Read More »
CS Area Research Shines at 2023 Postdoc Symposium
Eighteen Berkeley Lab postdoctoral researchers from across the Computing Sciences Area brought their A-game to this year’s CS Area Postdoc Symposium. Read More »
The Most Advanced Bay Area Earthquake Simulations Will be Publicly Available
A collaboration involving scientists and computing resources from Berkeley Lab and the simulation software EQSIM is releasing the most accurate and detailed earthquake simulations to date, which will initially capture earthquake motions across the San Francisco Bay Area and later expand to other regions. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Researchers Share Expertise at SIAM’s CSE23
The biennial SIAM CSE23 conference will be held February 27–March 3 in Amsterdam. Berkeley Lab will be well-represented at the meeting. Read More »
WarpX Code Shines at the Exascale Level
The WarpX project has spent the last six years creating a novel, highly parallel, and highly optimized single-source simulation code for modeling plasma-based particle colliders on cutting-edge exascale supercomputers with broad importance for other accelerators and related problems. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Scientists Create Machine Learning Pipeline for Interpreting Large Tomography Datasets
A group of Berkeley Lab scientists has developed and tested several machine learning techniques organized in a learning pipeline to improve the interpretation of increasingly large cryo-ET datasets. Read More »