Summer Student Project Opportunities - Summer 2010
Apply now to join LBNL's Summer 2010 Student Program
To ensure fastest consideration, please include position number 23585 and the project code(s) listed below in your cover letter. Attach your cover letter as the last page of your resume and submit to our online application.
Data access Projects may be available in any of the following programs. Please check back regularly as new projects will be posted as they become available.
To apply for a summer position, go to http://jobs.lbl.gov/LBNLCareers/details.asp?jid=23585&p=1 to apply. Please include position number 23585 and the project code(s) listed below in your cover letter. Attach your cover letter as the last page of your resume and submit to our online application.
Computational Research Division
The Computational Research Division (CRD) creates computational tools and techniques that enable scientific breakthroughs, by conducting applied research and development in computer science, computational science, and applied mathematics. CRD consists of four departments:
The Advanced Computing for Science (ACS) Department seeks to allow scientists to address complex and large-scale computing and data analysis problems beyond what is possible today. The department is developing software components that will operate in a distributed environment. Research areas include providing tools to facilitate Grid services; building prototype tools to explore models of informal collaboration between geographically remote researchers; techniques for assuring the security of distributed applications and for providing site security while permitting access by a wide variety of remote applications; and developing customized tools and support for specific scientific collaborations.
The Biological Data Management and Technology Center (BDMTC) serves as a source of expertise in and provides support for data management and bioinformatics tool development projects at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Life Sciences and Physical Biosciences Divisions at LBNL, Biomedical Centers at UCSF, and other similar organizations in the Bay Area. The Center enables collaborating organizations to share experience, expertise, technology, and results across projects, employing industry practices in developing data management systems and bioinformatics tools, while maintaining academic high standards for the underlying data generation, interpretation, and analysis methods and algorithms.
The Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) is a high-speed network serving thousands of Department of Energy scientists and collaborators worldwide. More information about ESnet is available below.
The High Performance Computing Research Department conducts research and development in mathematical modeling, algorithmic design, software implementation, and system architectures, and evaluates new and promising technologies. They collaborate directly with scientists, in fields ranging from materials sciences to climate modeling to astrophysics, to solve computational and data management problems. They also create visualizations to help scientists gain new physical insights and make the data more comprehensible.
The department consists of seven groups:
The Applied Numerical Algorithms group develops advanced numerical algorithms and software for partial differential equations.
The Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) develops and applies advanced computational methodologies to solve large-scale scientific and engineering problems.
The Future Technologies Group performs research and development on infrastructure for scientific computing.
The Mathematics Group centers their research on the development of numerical and analytical methods and their application to challenging, difficult problems in physics and engineering.
The Scientific Computing Group works on diverse scientific applications as well as generic problems in scientific computing.The Scientific Data Management Group develops tools for efficient access and storage management of massive scientific data sets.
The Visualization Group collaborates with scientists by applying and developing state-of-the-art practices in scientific visualization.National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the flagship scientific computing facility for the Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy. As one of the largest facilities in the world devoted to providing computational resources and expertise for basic scientific research, NERSC is a world leader in accelerating scientific discovery through computation. NERSC is located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.
The more than 3,000 computational scientists who use NERSC perform basic scientific research across a wide range of disciplines. These disciplines include climate modeling, research into new materials, simulations of the early universe, analysis of data from high energy physics experiments, investigations of protein structure, and a host of other scientific endeavors. A survey of scientific research performed at NERSC can be found in the NERSC Annual Reports.
NERSC is known as one of the best-run scientific computing facilities in the world. While NERSC provides some of the largest computing and storage systems available anywhere, what distinguishes NERSC is its success in creating an environment that makes these resources effective for scientific research. NERSC systems are reliable and secure, and provide a state-of-the-art scientific development environment with the tools needed by the diverse community of NERSC users. NERSC provides intellectual services that allow computational scientists to be more effective -- consultants who are experts in computational science and performance tuning, visualization assistance, training, customized support, and other services.
All research projects that are funded by the DOE Office of Science and require High Performance Computing support are eligible to apply to use NERSC resources. Projects that are not funded by the DOE Office of Science, but conduct research in support of the Office of Science mission man also apply. Please see Accounts and Allocations for more information about applying for an account at NERSC.
Energy Sciences Network - ESnet
ESnet is a high-speed network serving thousands of Department of Energy scientists and collaborators worldwide. A pioneer in providing high-bandwidth, reliable connections, ESnet enables researchers at national laboratories, universities and other institutions to communicate with each other using the collaborative capabilities needed to address some of the world's most important scientific challenges.
Managed and operated by the ESnet staff at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ESnet provides direct connections to all major DOE sites (site list) with high performance speeds, as well as fast interconnections to more than 100 other networks. Funded principally by DOE's Office of Science, ESnet services allow scientists to make effective use of unique DOE research facilities and computing resources, independent of time and geographic location.
ESnet is funded by the DOE Office of Science to provide network and collaboration services in support of the agency's research missions.
Information Technology (IT)
The Information Technology (IT) Division supports Berkeley Lab's scientific mission by developing and maintaining the Lab's computing, information, and communications infrastructure. This infrastructure includes networking and telecommunications; desktop computing support; information systems for management, scientific clusters, technical information and computer security.
Services include: Windows and MAC, Linux Support, Software Licenses, Software Downloads, Backups, Computer Training Room Rental. –Server and Cluster Support provide installation and maintenance of the Lab’s extensive server and cluster networks.
Unix Cluster: The UNIX Systems Support Group provides ongoing and time-and-materials support for a variety of UNIX desktop and server operating systems. The group. The group currently supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x and 4.x; Centos Linux 3.x and 4.x; cAos Linux 2.x; Sun Solaris 8, 9, and 10; and Network Appliance DataOntap.
How to Apply
Projects may be available in any of the above programs. Please check back regularly as new projects will be posted as they become available.
To apply for a summer position, go to http://jobs.lbl.gov/LBNLCareers/details.asp?jid=23585&p=1 to apply. Please include position number 23585 and the project code(s) listed below in your cover letter. Attach your cover letter as the last page of your resume and submit to our online application.
