Berkeley Lab Selects IBM Technology to Power Cloud Computing Research An IBM System x iDataPlex server will run the Berkeley Lab's program to explore how cloud computing can be used to advance scientific discovery. The program, dubbed Magellan, will be a test bed for NERSC scientists to explore the effectiveness of cloud computing for their particular research problems.The program is funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the U.S. Department of Energy. New Consortium to Tackle Challenge of Adapting Scientific Applications to Hybrid Multicore Systems While hybrid multicore technologies will be a critical component in future high-end computing systems, most of today's scientific applications will require a significant re-engineering effort to take advantage of the resources provided by these systems. To address this challenge, three U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, including the Berkeley Lab, and two leading universities have formed the Hybrid Multicore Consortium. | First Full-Scale Simulation of Cat-Size Cortex is a Gordon Bell Prize Winner
A team of researchers from the IBM Almaden Research Center and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have performed the first near real-time cortical simulation of the brain that exceeds the scale of a cat cortex and contains 1 billion spiking neurons and 10 trillion individual learning synapses. Their work was honored with a Gordon Bell Prize in the special category for development of innovative techniques that produce new levels of performance on a real application. StarGate Demo at SC09 Shows How to Keep Astrophysics Data Out of Archival "Black Holes" Some people claim that it's impossible to move those terabytes of data between computing centers and the laboratories or universities where researcher sits. But in a live SC09 demo in which data simulating cosmic structures of the early universe was streamed over a reserved 10-gigabits-per-second provided by the Department of Energy's ESnet (Energy Sciences Network), Mike Norman of the San Diego Supercomputing Center and his graduate assistant Rick Wagner showed it can be done. |
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