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2009

StarGate Demo at SC09 Shows How to Keep Astrophysics Data Out of Archival "Black Holes" (11-20-09)

First Full-Scale Simulation of Cat-Size Cortex is a Gordon Bell Prize Winner (11-19-09)

New Consortium to Tackle Challenge of Adapting Scientific Applications to Hybrid Multicore Systems
(11-18-09)

Berkeley Lab Selects IBM Technology to Power Cloud Computing Research (11-16-09)

NERSC Continues Tradition of CMB Data Analysis with the Planck Cluster (10-30-09)

NERSC Overcomes Software Challenges for Scientific Computing (10-30-09)

Berkeley Lab Researchers Prepare Climate Community for 100-Gbps Transfers (10-30-09)

B-ISICLES (Berkeley Ice Sheet Initiative for Climate at Extreme Scales) Project to Improve Accuracy of Ice Sheet Models (10-30-09)

It's Not Too Late: Simulations show that cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would save arctic ice, reduce sea level rise (10-27-09)

DOE to Explore Scientific Cloud Computing at Argonne, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (10-14-09)

ASCR Discovery: Lasers Without Mirrors, Designed by Supercomputer (10-14-09)

Juan Meza Named One of Hispanic Business Magazine's "100 Influentials" (10-6-09)

NERSC Contributes to the Development of Award-Winning Mapping Software (9-30-09)

ASCR Discovery: Reanalysis Project Targets Once-and-Future Weather (9-29-09)

Computer Code Gives Astrophysicists First Full Simulation of Star's Final Hours (9-22-09)

ESnet Honored as One of Top 10 Government IT Innovators (9-16-09)

ASCR Discovery: Flame Simulations Lift Combustion Energy's Future (9-15-09)

SciDAC Review: Divide and Conquer for TRACTABLE Computations (9-11-09)

SciDAC Review: The MANYCORE Revolution: Will HPC LEAD or FOLLOW? (9-11-09)

SciDAC Review: The Challenge of Energy-Efficient HPC (9-11-09)

SciDAC Review: A Lightning-Fast INDEX Drives Massive DATA Analysis (9-11-09)

CRD Researchers Receive Recovery Act Funds to Help Improve Reliability of Electrical Grid (9-1-09)

AMS Mathematical Moments: Predicting Climate (9-1-09)

CRD Receives Funding to Develop Tools for Science Research (8-31-09)

ASCR Discovery: Code controls communication to boost computer performance (8-27-09)

ASCR Discovery: Through difficulty, Berkeley Lab's Cecilia Aragon soars to the stars (8-21-09)

Berkeley Lab's ESnet Receives $62 Million to Develop World's Fastest Computer Network (8-10-09)

Increase in IO Bandwidth to Enhance Future Understanding of Climate Change (8-07-09)

NERSC Awards Supercomputer Contract to CRAY (8-05-09)

NERSC's Supercomputer Expands the Frontiers of Science (8-05-09)

ESnet's OSCARS Allows Users to Reserve Bandwidth (7-31-09)

Jeff Broughton is the New Head of NERSC's Systems Department (7-31-09)

NERSC's Franklin Supercomputer Upgraded to Double Its Scientific Capability (7-20-09)

Protein Structures Revealed at Record Pace (7-20-09)

Cecilia Aragon Honored with the Presidential Early Career Award (7-10-09)

Green HPC: Horst Simon Helps Sift through the Hype (6-30-09)

Berkeley Lab Scientists Contribute to Major New Report Describing Climate Change Impacts on the U.S. (6-16-09)

NERSC Helps Discover Cosmic Transients (6-15-09)

ESnet Rolls Out IPv6 Network Management System (6-15-09)

Scientists Demonstrate Tools for Analyzing Massive Datasets (6-11-09)

ASCR Discovery: Scientists Open Their Eyes to Visualization's Potential (6-3-09)

Deceiphering Science From Laser Particle Accelerators (5-26-09)

NERSC Builds Gateways For Science Sharing (5-26-09)

IMG Expert Review Goes Primetime: Provides Expert-Driven Quality Control for Microbial Genome Information (5-18-09)

ESnet and NERSC Help Speed Up Data Transfers Between Department of Energy Facilities (5-18-09)

Berkeley Lab Mathematicians among First Group of Fellows Named by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (5-01-09)

Climate Experts Warn that Short-Term Snapshots of Temperature Data Can Be Misleading (5-01-09)

PerfSONAR Helps Accelerate Big Science Collaborations (4-28-09)

ESnet Connects STAR to Asian Collaborators (4-28-09)

ESnet Wins 2009 Excellence.Gov Award for Effectively Leveraging Technology (4-16-09)

NERSC's Deep Sky Project Provides a Portal Into Data Universe (3-30-09)

Berkeley Lab Checkpoint Restart Improves Productivity (3-30-09)

Green Flash Project Runs First Prototype Successfully (3-11-09)

Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing (2-12-09)

In the News (ASCR Discovery): Method Enables Bigger Models of Minuscule Molecular Systems (1-9-09)

2008

In the News (ASCR Discovery): FastBit: Digging through Databases Faster (12-23-08)

Humanities and High Performance Computers Connect at NERSC (12-22-08)

NERSC to Provide Resources to INCITE Projects Studying Combustion, Fusion Energy, Materials and Accelerator Design (12-19-08)

A Rising Tide of Cosmic Data: Simulating Planck's Full Focal Plane—and Beyond (12-10-08)

In the News (ASCR Discovery): Advancing the Science of Advancing Interfaces (12-5-08)

In the News (EETimes text and videos): Intel, Microsoft Launch Parallel Lab (12-1-08)

Integrated Microbial Genomics Reaches Out to Include Human Microbial Communities (12-1-08)

In the News (The Register): RISC Daddy Conjures Moore's Lawless Parallel Universe (11-26-08)

Berkeley Lab Team Wins Special ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Algorithm Innovation (11-24-08)

Networking Leaders Announce Initiative to Develop 100 GbE Services (11-18-08)

ESnet Completes Construction of Dynamic Science Data Network for Researchers (11-17-08)

LBNL Researchers Contribute Expertise in All Aspects of SC08 Conference (11-6-08)

CRD Method for Understanding Nanostructures Is a Gordon Bell Finalist (11-6-08)

Science Studio: Juan Meza Discusses Computational Mathematics in KTEP Radio Interview (11-3-08)

Princeton Has New High-Speed Connection to ESnet’s Dynamic ESnet4 Network (10-24-08)

Video Explains How ESnet Supports Large Hadron Collider (10-20-08)

After the First Decade of Metagenomics, Adolescent Growth Spurt Anticipated (9-29-08)

IMPACTS: On the Threshold of Abrupt Climate Changes (9-17-08)

In the News (MSNBC): Visualizing the Unseen Forces of Turbulence (9-16-08)

NERSC Releases Software Test for Its Next Supercomputer (9-12-08)

NOAA Awarded 2.6 Million Processor Hours at NERSC to Run Climate Change Models (9-11-08)

ESnet4 Helps Researchers Seeking the Origins of Matter (9-9-08)

DOE JGI Extends the Capabilities of the Integrated Microbial Genome (IMG) System, Updates the IMG/M Metagenome System, Launches Education Site (9-8-08)

A Computer for the Clouds (8-21-08)

Biochemical Pathways Identified in Microbial Community (8-20-08)

ESnet Names Steve Cotter to Head Network Serving Scientists around the Globe (8-11-08)

Juan Meza Wins 2008 Blackwell-Tapia Prize and SACNAS Distinguished Scientist Award (7-11-08)

FastBit Bitmap Index Wins 2008 R&D 100 Award for Technology Advances (7-9-08)

North America Faces More Extreme Weather from Global Warming (6-19-08)

NERSC Researcher John Shalf Discusses Low-Power Supercomputer (5-9-08)

High Performance Humanities (5-8-08)

Berkeley Lab Researchers Propose a New Breed of Supercomputers for Global Climate Predictions (5-5-08)

Code Booster: Award-Winning Research on Code Optimization Explores Multicore Computing (5-5-08)

From Virtual Frog to Grids: ESnet's Bill Johnston, Nearing Retirement, Reflects on His Career (4-11-08)

The Greening of High Performance Computing (4-10-08)

Living the Vision: A Profile of Kathy Yelick (4-8-08)

Making “Parallel Programming” Synonymous with “Programming” (3-24-08)

Berkeley Lab Researchers Lead Parallel Computing Research Center at UC Berkeley (3-18-08)

Berkeley Lab Climate Researcher Contributes to Two National Reports on Impacts of Climate Change on Transportation (3-17-08)

CRD Researcher Describes Parallel Path (2-25-08)

Vern Paxson Honored for Research Characterizing the Internet (2-21-08)

LBNL Mathematician James Sethian Elected to National Academy of Engineering (2-14-08)

A Modest Proposal for Petascale Computing (2-8-08)

Leading Supercomputing Centers in Switzerland and United States to Share Staff Expertise, Experience (2-7-08)

DOE JGI Releases a New Version of Its Metagenome Data Management & Analysis System (2-7-08)

DOE Announces 2008 INCITE Awards for Large-Scale Research in Multiple Disciplines (1-17-08)

2007

Zinc Oxide Research Ranked Among Most-Accessed Papers in Nano Letters (12-14-07)

Latest Release of Microbial Genome Data Management System Includes a Total of 3,637 Genomes (12-4-07)

Ernest Szeto Co-Authors Metagenomic Analysis of Termite Gut Microbes (11-26-07)

Berkeley Lab Researchers Win Best Poster Awards at SC07 and IEEE VAST 2007 (11-16-07)

ESnet, Internet2 Complete Coast-to-Coast Next-Generation Network in Support of DOE Scientific Community (11-15-07)

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Shares Expertise at SC07 (11-8-07)

The Next Step in Powering Computers (11-5-07)

NERSC Announces Acceptance of One of the World's Largest Supercomputers (11-1-07)

Prof. Kathy Yelick Named New Director for DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (10-29-07)

The Computational Cosmology Center (C³) Launched (10-27-07)

Research Shows Human Impact on Global Warming (10-27-07)

ESnet4 Rolls Out New Cross-Country 10 Gbps Network (9-28-07)

Scientists Compute Death Throes of White Dwarf Star in 3D (3-22-07)

Lab Team Helping Smooth Flow of Water Data (3-16-07)

Star-Gazing Across an Ocean: the Keck Remote Observing Facility (3-16-07)

Evaluating Application Performance on Big Iron (3-8-07)

Confronting Parallelism: The View from Berkeley (3-2-07)

JGI and BDMTC Upgrade IMG/M, the Metagenomics Data Management & Analysis System (1-22-07)

Cray Delivers First Third of the Franklin XT4 System to NERSC (1-17-07)

DOE INCITE Program Awards Large Allocations at NERSC to Study Supernovae, Fusion Energy, Climate Change, Combustion, Chemistry and Accelerator Design (1-8-07)

CRD Nanoscience Project Awarded 1.5 Million Hours under DOE INCITE Program (1-8-07)

2006

Horst Simon Steps Down As NERSC Director (12-15-06)

CRD's Paul Concus Receives AIAA Space Processing Award (12-6-06)

DOE JGI Releases IMG 2.0 with all Genomes Refreshed from RefSeq (12-1-06)

Berkeley Lab to Showcase HPC and Networking Leadership in Talks, Demos at SC06 Conference (11-10-06)

The Software Challenges of Petascale Computing (11-10-06)

The Yin and Yang of Understanding Data (11-03-06)

LBNL to Lead Five Projects, Partner in Eight Others under DOE's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (9-7-06)

ESnet and Internet2 Partner to Deploy Next-Generation Network for Scientific Research and Discovery (8-31-06)

Cray Wins $52 Million Supercomputer Contract with NERSC (8-10-06)

Energy Department Providing Additional Supercomputing Resources to Study Hurricane Effects on Gulf Coast (7-19-06)

Berkeley Lab Researchers Analyze Performance, Potential of Cell Processor (5-30-06)

New Microbial Metagenome Data Analysis System Producing Results, Stirring Interest (5-30-06)

Enron Email Database Proves Easy Pickings for LBNL's FastBit Search Technology (4-4-06)

Experimental Metagenomics Data Management and Analysis System Is Released (3-30-06)

DOE's Office of Science Awards 18 Million Hours of Supercomputing Time to 15 Teams for Large-Scale Scientific Computing (1-31-06)

NERSC Supercomputers to Analyze Hurricane Coastal Surges, Help Plan Rebuilding in Louisiana, Gulf Coast (1-25-06)

New IBM Cluster to Enter Production January 9 (1-5-06)

2005

CRD's Barenblatt Wins Timoshenko Medal for Applied Mechanics (11-14-05)

Berkeley Lab to Showcase HPC and Networking Leadership in Talks, Demos at SC05 Conference (11-8-05)

Berkeley Lab's John Bell Receives 2005 Sidney Fernbach Award for Outstanding Contributions to High Performance Computing (11-7-05)

Berkeley Lab and NCSA Team to Build Geophysics Cluster (10-5-05)

NERSC Launches Linux Networx Supercomputer into Production (8-16-05)

LBNL's Biological Data Management and Technology Center Joins California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (8-8-05)

Groundbreaking Combustion Research by LBNL Featured on Cover of Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (7-19-05)

DOE Dramatically Increasing Bandwidth to Support Scientific Research Throughout San Francisco Region (6-24-05)

Berkeley Lab to Host Sixth Workshop on the DOE Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection for HPC Applications (4-13-05)

Joint Genome Institute and Biological Data Management and Technology Center Launch Powerful Data Management System for Microbes (3-4-05)

Washington, D.C. Seminar Series to Highlight Current Scientific Computing Issues (2-15-05)

2004

DOE Allocates Massive Supercomputer Resources to Drive Advances in Combustion, Astrophysics and Protein Structure Research (12-22-04)

Kathy Yelick Named Leader of Berkeley Lab's New Berkeley Institute for Performance Studies (BIPS) (11-8-04)

Berkeley Lab Scientists Gain New INCITE on Photosynthesis (10-1-04)

Laser Wakefield Acceleration: Channeling the Best Beams Ever (9-29-04)

DOE Office of Science INCITE Program Seeking Proposals for Large-Scale Scientific Computing (7-13-04)

Tuning the Nanoworld: New Methods for Constructing Nanostructures and Calculating Their Electronic States (7-7-04)

Heidelberg Talk Tells How to "Fool the Masses" (6-29-04)

Anatomy of a Web(bed) Legend: "Virtual Frog" Still Making Splash After 10 Years (6-28-04)

LBNL's Erich Strohmaier to Share HPC Performance Expertise at Conferences (5-10-04)

Berkeley Lab Computational Scientist Phil Colella Elected to National Academy of Sciences (4-20-04)

Victor Markowitz Returns to LBNL to Head Bio Data Management Center (2-2-04)

Berkeley Lab Mathematician James Sethian Receives Prestigious Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics (1-27-04)

ITSD's Mike Bennett Named One of 50 Most Powerful People in Networking (1-5-04)

2003

DOE Announces Major INCITE Allocations of NERSC Resources (12-23-03)

Looking at ESnet: An Interview with Bill Johnston (12-5-03)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to Showcase Computing, Grids Expertise at SC2003 Conference (11-10-03)

Modeling a Cosmic Bomb: DOE "Big Splash" Award Produces a NERSC First (10-31-03)

NERSC Helps Nearby Supernova Factory Discover Supernovae at a Rate of 8 per Month (9-26-03)

Improved Algorithm Speeds Up Fusion Code by a Factor of 5 (9-2-03)

Scientists Find "Fingerprint" of Human Activities in Recent Tropopause Height Changes (9-2-03)

INCITE Program to Allocate Major Department of Energy Office of Science Computing Resources to Key Scientific Projects (7-31-03)

Simulation Computed at NERSC Matches Historic Gamma-Ray Burst (7-21-03)

Two Berkeley Lab Mathematicians Honored for Contributions to Computational Science and Engineering (6-9-03)

Fourth Workshop on the DOE Advanced Computational Software Collection (5-9-03)

Science-of-Scale Applications Achieve Significant Results and up to 68% of Peak Performance on NERSC's 10 Tflop/s IBM SP (4-7-03)

ESnet Leaps Ahead by Two Generations, Upgrades Backbone to 10 Billion Bits per Second (3-25-03)

DOE's NERSC Center Deploys 10 Teraflop/s IBM Supercomputer (3-10-03)

Envisioning the Grid: The Wizards of Viz (1-29-03)

NERSC Helps Get the Physics out of KamLAND Data (1-27-03)

David Quarrie Taking Two-Year Assignment to Manage ATLAS Software Project (1-21-03)

Berkeley Lab Seeking Applicants for Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Computational Science (1-6-03)

2002

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Leads International Team to Win High-Performance Computing Bandwidth Challenge (11-25-02)

Berkeley Lab to Share Computing, Networking Expertise in SC2002 Technical Program and Exhibition (11-4-02)

NERSC to Offer 10 Teraflop/s System by Early 2003 (11-1-02)

Ray Orbach, Director of Office of Science at U.S. Department of Energy, to Address SC2002 Conference in November (10-28-02)

Creating Science-Driven Computer Architecture: The "Blue Planet" Proposal (10-15-02)

NERSC Helps Climate Scientists Complete First Ever 1,000-Year Run of Nation's Leading Climate Change Modeling Application (9-4-02)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Team Achieves 10.6 Gigabits/Second Data
Throughput in 10-Gigabit Ethernet Test (7-3-02)

Registration Open for September 4-7 Workshop on the DOE Advanced Computational
Software Collection (7-3-02)

Berkeley Lab’s RAGE Telepresence Robot Captures R&D100 Award (7-2-02)

NERSC, IBM Announce Grids Collaboration (3-22-02)

NERSC's Peter Nugent Named to Hubble Space Telescope Users Committee (3-4-02)

Berkeley Lab Mathematician Alexandre Chorin Awarded Prestigious "University Professor" Honor by UC Regents (2-11-02)

2001

Colliding Black Holes, Dancers, and Electron Microscopy Push Network Boundaries by Moving Billions of Bits in Network Bandwidth Challenge at SC2001 Conference (11-16-01)

RAGE Rolls Out in Denver (11-9-01)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to Present Leading HPC Experts in Series of Talks at SC2001 Conference (11-9-01)

World's Largest Unclassified Supercomputer Goes Online, Scientists Already Reporting Significant Results (10-8-01)

Nuclear Science and Physics Programs Invest in a Major Expansion of the PDSF Cluster at NERSC (10-8-01)

DOE Funds Research to Boost Network Performance (9-26-01)

Berkeley Lab Receives Multi-Million-Dollar Funding to Develop New Computational Tools for Advancing Scientific Research (8-14-01)

Are the Digits of Pi Random? A Berkeley Lab Researcher May Hold the Key (7-24-01)

Ranking Shows U.S. Department of Energy's NERSC at Berkeley Lab Has World's Most Powerful Unclassified Supercomputer (6-21-01)

A Lucky Catch: The Oldest, Most Distant Type IA Supernova Confirmed by Supercomputer Analysis at NERSC (4-2-01)

2000

Berkeley Lab Demonstrates Leadership in High-Performance Computing and Networking at SC2000 (11-14-00)

Berkeley Lab to Release AMR Software Package at SC2000 (11-1-00)

NERSC's Bill Kramer Leads Networking at SC2000 (11-1-00)

Scientific Data Management Group Making Significant Progress, Also Making News (6-16-00)

NERSC to Share Major Grant for Climate Model Research (5-15-00)

NERSC's Deb Agarwal Named One of the Top 25 Women on the Web (5-1-00)

BOOMERANG Antarctic Balloon Flight Sees a Flat Universe: NERSC Supercomputer Analysis Crucial to the Result (4-26-00)

NERSC Accepts New IBM Supercomputer -- First Step Toward 3 Trillion Calculations per Second Capability (3-28-00)

ESnet Leading the Way in Implementing Next Generation of Internet Protocol (2-14-00)

An Algorithm for the Ages: PSLQ, a Better Way to Find Integer Relations (1-20-00)

ESnet Awards Qwest Communications $50 Million Contract to Support Energy Department's Scientific Communications Network (1-4-00)

1999

Solved at Last: A Fundamental Problem of Quantum Physics (12-24-99)

Berkeley Lab's Oakland Facility Under Construction (12-17-99)

NERSC's Lenny Oliker Co-Authors "Best Paper of SC99" (11-30-99)

Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Organization to Highlight High-Performance Computing and Networking Expertise, History at SC99 Conference (11-10-99)

Department of Energy to Showcase High-Performance Computing Leadership at SC99 Conference (11-9-99)

DOE Establishes Probe Testbed for Storage-Intensive Applications (10-12-99)

New Biological Database Seeks Out Products of Alternative Gene Splicing (8-2-99)

Lab a Key Player in Developing Next Generation Internet (7-30-99)

NERSC Celebrates 25 Years of Computing (7-7-99)

New IBM RS/6000 System Rolls into NERSC Machine Room (7-2-99)

NERSC Picks IBM System for Next-Generation Supercomputer with 3 Trillion Calculations per Second Capability (4-28-99)

NERSC Achieves Breakthrough 93% Utilization on Cray T3E (4-19-99)

Computing Sciences' Deb Agarwal to Help Develop Test Ban Treaty Monitoring System (4-9-99)

NERSC Presents Computational Science Lecture Series in D.C. (3-30-99)

Energy Department to Broaden Peer Review for Use of its Largest Unclassified Computer Center (2-22-99)

Forbes ASAP Picks Berkeley Lab Visualization as Cover Image to Illustrate Power of Supercomputers (2-22-99)

Science Magazine Names Supernova Cosmology Project "Breakthrough of the Year" (1-4-99)

Future Technologies Group Gets Four-Year Funding for Cluster Work (1-4-99)

1998

NERSC Is Partner in Winning Supercomputing's Top Prize (11-17-98)

Computing Sciences Demonstrates Latest Scientific Computing Tools at High-Performance Computing and Networking Conference (11-5-98)

Phillip Colella Receives 1998 Sidney Fernbach Award (11-3-98)

Powerful Computers Advance Fusion Research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (9-18-98)

ACTS Toolkit Support Debuts on the Web (8-27-98)

China Clipper Project to Bring Distant Resources Together Online (7-15-98)

Did the Big Bang Come With Strings Attached? (6-30-98)

New Technology Demonstrates Priority Service for Internet Traffic Between Lawrence Berkeley and Argonne National Laboratories (4-14-98)

NERSC and the Fate of the Universe (4-13-98)

Quantum Dot Simulations from T3E Make Journal Cover (4-7-98)

NERSC Gets Funding to Enhance Climate Modeling Tools (3-6-98)

1997

International Survey Ranks Berkeley Lab as Top Unclassified Computing Center in United States (12-17-97)

Researchers May Apply for Time on NERSC Supercomputers (11-18-97)

Rock-Solid Science: Scaling New Heights in Computational Science (11-10-97)

NERSC Delivers One Million T3E CPU-Hours to Scientific Users (10-28-97)

Berkeley Lab Supercomputer Center First to Reach Decade-Long Goal of Seamless Shutdown, Restart on Massively Parallel Processing System (10-21-97)

Intel, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley to Create Off-The-Shelf Parallel Supercomputing Network (10-9-97)

Berkeley Researchers Eliminate One Theory in Mystery of Missing Xenon, but Find New Clues About Element's Behavior (9-25-97)

Computing Sciences Reorganizes to Better Align R&D Programs in High-Performance Computing and Networking Technology (8-11-97)

NERSC begins acceptance tests of Cray T3E-900 (7-7-97)

Berkeley Lab Workshop Seeks Standards for Making Mountains of Data More Accessible (6-28-97)

CRAY T3E-900 Getting Up and Running at NERSC (6-21-97)

Finding Ways to Fill Electronic Potholes on the Information Superhighway (6-8-97)