NERSC Continues Tradition of Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis with the Planck Cluster
10.30.09 Armed with a new spacecraft called Planck and supercomputers at NERSC, astronomers around the world hope to make tremendous strides toward illuminating the nature and origins of dark matter and dark energy by creating high-resolution maps of subtle variations in the temperature and polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background.
NERSC Overcomes Software Challenges for Scientific Computing
10.30.09 As chip manufacturers are turning more towards multi-core architectures, which pack increasing numbers of cores onto the chip, programmers must rethink the basic models of algorithm development and parallel programming. To ensure that science effectively adapts to the "multicore revolution," NERSC is developing The Computational Science and Engineering Petascale Initiative.
Berkeley Lab Researchers Prepare Climate Community for 100-Gbps Transfers
10.30.09 Climate 100 will help ensure that the climate research community effectively uses the planned 100 gigabit-per-second networks. This project will bring together middleware and network researchers to develop the needed tools and techniques for moving unprecedented amounts of climate data.
B-ISICLES (Berkeley Ice Sheet Initiative for Climate at Extreme Scales) Project to Improve Accuracy of Ice Sheet Models
10.30.09 One of the most-cited examples of global climate change is retreating ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland. But the details of how fast they are melting is a mystery that may be solved with a new generation of computer simulations.
It's Not Too Late
10.27.09 Computer simulations on more than 2000 processors of Franklin, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center's (NERSC) Cray XT4 system, as well as computers at the Oak Ridge and Argonne Leadership Computing Facilities and at National Center for Atmospheric Research show that cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would save arctic ice, reduce sea level rise.
DOE to Explore Scientific Cloud Computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories
10.14.09 Cloud computing is gaining traction in the commercial world, but can such an approach also meet the computing and data storage demands of the nation's scientific community? A new Department of Energy program will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines.
ASCR Discovery: Lasers Without Mirrors, Designed by Supercomputer
10.14.09 To model for phenomena that can hamper beam quality in Free Electron Laser (FEL) designs, scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will simulate evolution of the electron beam from its origin to its fate as a photon source with the the Cray XT computer, called Franklin, at NERSC.
Juan Meza Named One of Hispanic Business Magazine’s “100 Influentials”
10.6.09 Juan Meza, head of the High Performance Computing Department in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division, has been named to Hispanic Business magazine's annual list of 100 influential Hispanics.
