ESnet and Partners to Create 100G R&E Link Across Atlantic
4.24.13 More than 10 years after the world's first 10 gigabits-per-second (Gbps) link between New York City and Amsterdam was put into production, ESnet, Internet2, NORDUnet, SURFnet, CANARIE and GÉANT—have announced their intent to build the world's first 100 Gbps intercontinental transmission links for research and education.
At 14, SuperLU Solver Library Still Growing in Popularity
4.24.13 Since its launch in 1999, the SuperLU software library for solving sparse linear systems of equations has become the third most downloaded software at Berkeley Lab. Between Oct. 1, 2011 and Sept. 30, 2012, SuperLU was downloaded 24,303 times, nearly a 50 percent increase over the previous year.
Supercomputers Help a Catalyst Reach its Full Potential
4.23.13 Chemical reactions, facilitated by catalysts, are crucial to many industrial processes. Although many catalysts used in industry work just fine, researchers at PNNL want them to reach their full potential. Using supercomputing simulations (done partly at NERSC) and laboratory experiments they found that placing protons in the right spot lets catalysts avoid wasting time and energy on profligate reactions.
ONF Selects ESnet’s Inder Monga as a Research Associate
4.22.13 The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting Software-Defined Networking (SDN), has announced the appointment of 12 Research Associates to the organization. ESnet Chief Technologist Inder Monga is one of nine new industry thought leaders named as a Research Associate for the coming year.
Berkeley Code Captures Retreating Antarctic Ice
3.29.13 Satellite observations suggest that the shrinking West Antarctic ice sheet is contributing to global sea level rise. But until recently, scientists could not accurately model the physical processes driving retreat of the ice sheet. Now, a new ice sheet model—called Berkeley-ISICLES (BISICLES)—is shedding light on these details.
Meeting the Computing Challenges of Next-Generation Climate Models
3.26.13 As global climate models improve, they are generating ever larger amounts of data. For Michael Wehner, a climate scientist in CRD who focuses on extreme weather—such as the intense hurricanes, "derecho" and atmospheric rivers (or "pineapple express") like the one that California saw last December—computing challenges are key to his work. From March 20-22, Berkeley Lab hosted an international workshop to address some of these issues.
