Hank Childs Wins 2012 DOE Early Career Award
5.10.12 Hank Childs of the CRD's Visualization Group has been honored with a 2012 DOE Early Career Award. This is the third year of the Early Career Research Program managed by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, and Childs is 68 award recipients from 47 institutions.
Floating Robots Track Water Flow With Smartphones
5.09.12 To understand how water flows through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, 100 mobile sensors were placed into the Sacramento River on May 9 to make critical measurements every few seconds. Once collected, this data is transmitted to NERSC for assimilation and analysis.
After 5 Years, NERSC's Franklin Retires
5.04.12 This week, the Department of Energy's NERSC retired one of its most scientifically prolific supercomputers to date—a Cray XT4 named Franklin, in honor of the United States' pioneering scientist Benjamin Franklin.
John Bell Elected to National Academy of Sciences
5.01.12 John Bell, an applied mathematician and computational scientist who leads the Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering and the Mathematics and Computational Science Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
High School Girls Present Apps Developed in Lab-Supported Program
4.30.12 Eleven teams of high school girls who have been meeting with mentors at Berkeley Lab since February to develop science education apps for smartphones gave their best pitches for their work Saturday, with a team from Albany High taking top honors for StudiCafe, an app aimed at helping students study for college-level Advanced Placement courses with social networking added to maintain interest.
A 100-Gigbit Highway for Science
4.30.12 With $62 million in funding from the Recovery Act, ESnet built a 100 Gbps long-haul prototype network and a wide-area testbed. So far more than 25 groups have taken advantage of ESnet's wide-area testbed, which is open to researchers from government agencies and private industry, to test new, potentially disruptive network technologies without interfering with other network traffic. Here are some of their stories.
Visualizing How Space Weather Cracks Earth's Cocoon
4.30.12 Earth is mostly protected from solar radiation by the magnetosphere. But sometimes the magnetosphere "cracks," allowing radiation to seep in and wreak havoc on power grids and satellites. This phenomenon is not well understood, so scientists from UC San Diego ran simulations to investigate what happens. In the process, they generated approximately 3 petabytes of data, and reached out to Berkeley Lab's Burlen Loring to develop customized visualization techniques for analyzing data.
Eli Dart Answers Questions About ESnet's Science DMZ
4.27.12 As science becomes increasingly data-intensive, ESnet is helping research institutions fully capitalize on the growing availability of bandwidth by encouraging them to use a network design model called the "Science DMZ." The Science DMZ is a specially designed local networking infrastructure aimed at speeding the delivery of scientific data. In this interview, Eli Dart, who leads the Science DMZ effort at ESnet, answers some basic questions about the project.
