Computing Sciences in the News
May 2012
SciTechDaily: NDCX-II, A Special-Purpose Particle Accelerator (5.14.12)
TACC: Biologically Inspired Chemistry (5.14.12)
MyNews4: Fleet of foot-long robots analyze Sacramento River (5.10.12)
UC Berkeley: Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow (5.10.12)
SmartPlanet: Floating, smartphone-equipped robots track water flow (5.10.12)
R&D Mag: Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow (5.10.12)
SFGate: Robots measure flow of Sacramento River (5.10.12)
PhysOrg: Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow (5.10.12)
PCWorld: UC Berkeley Tests Floating Robot Sensors to Track Water Flow, Environmental Concerns (5.09.12)
HPC Wire: 100G Network to Support Big Science (5.02.12)
Scientific Computing: $60M Grant to Launch Theory of Computing Institute (5.02.12)
April 2012
Science Daily: A 100-gigbit highway for science (4.30.12)
Eureka Alert: A 100-gigbit highway for science (4.30.12)
GCN: Energy project looks to tame supercomputing's tsunami of data (4.30.12)
WIRED: Vint Cerf: We knew What We Were Unleashing on the World (4.24.12)
R&D: New Institute to tackle 'data tsunami' challenge (4.18.12)
Eureka Alert: Where do the highest-energy cosmic rays come from? Probably not from GRBs (4.18.12)
HPC Wire: ISC12 Sessions to Focus on Exascale (4.17.12)
The Conversation: Yes, there's a numeracy crisis—so what's the solution? (4.13.12)
FedTech: Network Upgrades Meet the Need for Speed (4.6.12)
Scientific Computing: New Kind of Neutrino Transformation Discovered (4.5.12)
Frontier Scientists: Two new videos about computational science: Modeling Climate and Designing Supercomputers. (4.3.12)
Stanford News: Straintronics: Stanford engineers create piezoelectric graphene (4.3.12)
ISGTW: Computer code for cleaner coal (4.3.12)
Huffington Post: Are Computers Playing Games With Us? (4.2.12)
March 2012
Lab Manager Magazine: Secretary Chu Announces New Institute to Help Scientists Improve Massive Data Set Research on DOE Supercomputers (3.30.12)
HPC Wire: Chu Announces the Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization Institute (3.30.12)
SF Business Times:
UC Berkeley, lab get $35M to study Big Data (3.29.12)
Information Week:
White House Shares $200 Million Big Data Plan (3.29.12)
ASCR Discovery:
HPC must ramp up efficiency to deal with extreme-data flood (3.27.12)
ALS News:
A Better Anode Design to Improve Lithium-Ion Batteries (3.23.12)
ISGTW:
A New Kind of Neutrino Transformation
(3.21.12)
EMSL:
Water, Sun, Energy
(3.21.12)
Environmental Research Web:
Insight: shrub height affects future Arctic climate and permafrost (3.20.12)
Storage Newsletter:
NERSC Center Implements Active Archive Alliance (3.19.12)
Nanowerk:
Engineered piezoelectric graphene could yield dramatic degree of control in nanotechnology (3.16.12)
Stanford University:
Straintronics: Engineers create piezoelectric graphene (3.16.12)
ISGTW:
Scientists and high school girls collaborate (3.07.12)
insideHPC:
NERSC Goes with Tape for Active Archive (3.07.12)
Yahoo! Finance:
NERSC Accelerates Data Access and Exceeds Reliability Standards with Tape-Based Active Archive (3.06.12)
Virtual Strategy Magazine:
NERSC Accelerates Data Access and Exceeds Reliability Standards with Tape-Based Active Archive
(3.06.12)
HPC Wire:
NERSC Implements Tape-Based Active Archive
(3.06.12)
February 2012
The Tartan: Massive 3-D universal map explores mysteries of space (2.27.12)CCST Spotlight: CCST Adds New Council Member, Senior Fellows (2.23.12)
GCN: Two states climb aboard new, 100-gigabit fast train (2.21.12)
HPC Wire: Workshop on Manycore, Accelerator-Based HPC Soliciting Posters and Speakers (2.21.12)
Data Knowledge Center: LBNL Plans For the Exascale Data Center (2.16.12)
AAAS Science: Exascale Computing Off to Slow Start in DOE Budget (2.13.12)
itbusiness.ca: U.S. to use climate to help cool exascale systems (2.10.12)
GenomeWeb: DOE Study Says Clouds Can't Replace Supercomputers (2.09.12)
Computerworld: U.S. to use climate to help cool exascale systems (2.09.12)
ISGTW: Assessing science in the cloud (2.08.12)
Cal Alumni Association: A Stellar Discovery (2.07.12)
InsideHPC: Energy Secretary Steven Chu Speaks at Ground Breaking for New LBNL Facility (2.03.12)
HPC Wire: Energy Secretary joins groundbreaking for new LBNL research facility (2.03.12)
SF World Journal: Energy Secretary Steven Chu Speaks at Ground Breaking for New LBNL Facility (2.02.12)
UC Berkeley: Energy Secretary joins groundbreaking for new LBNL research facility (2.02.12)
Scientific Computing: Can Cloud Address Scientific Computing Requirements for Research? (2.02.12)
Scientific Computing: Surpassing More than Three Billion Microbial Genes, Database Breaks Record (2.02.12)
ISGTW: Calculating the Universe (2.01.12)
January 2012
HPC Wire: Learning from Clouds Past: A Look Back at Magellan (1.31.12)The Conversation: Make mine a double: Moore's Law and the future of mathematics (1.31.12)
Newswise: Microscopy Reveals 'Atomic Antenna' Behavior in Graphene (1.31.12)
AAAS Science: What It'll Take to Go Exascale (1.27.12)
HPC Wire: Blue Waters Supercomputer to Use Grid-Based File Service (1.25.12)
DOE Office of Science: New Mariners and a Massy Map (1.26.12)
Forbes: Cloud Computing Not Qute Ready for the Lab: US Government Report (1.19.12)
Information Week: Federal Researchers Push Limits Of Cloud Computing (1.18.12)
Eureka Alert: The great gas hydrate escape (1.18.12)
Federal Computer Week: A fast lane to the cloud (1.17.12)
Science News: Diet of a dying star (1.13.12)
Admin HPC: Co-Design Approach to Supercomputing (1.12.12)
Eureka Alert: Earliest-yet observation of August supernova nails it: Destroyed star was white dwarf (1.11.12)
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