Photo Highlight:
Bay Area Scientific Computing Day Returns to the Berkeley Lab

"10 years after the first BASCD conference was held at the Berkeley Lab, the workshop is still as intellectually stimulating as ever," says Esmond Ng.

There were approximately 70 attendees at the 2009 BASCD conference, including many early career researchers— graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty members. The workshop gave these participants an oppportunity to present their work and interact with members of the scientific computing community in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The event was co-organized by Ng and Robert Crockett, both of CRD, with administrative support from Rachel Lance and Yeen Mankin. More>

Science Features:

NERSC and CRD Help Decipher Science from Compact Accelerator Simulations

Many scientists worry that future accelerators built with
today’s technology may simply be unaffordable. Thus, members of the LOASIS program at Berkeley Lab are collaborating with analytics and visualization experts from CRD and NERSC to gain a better understanding of the fundamental physics driving the Laser Plasma Accelerator, machines that can be compact enough to sit on a tabletop and produce accelerating electric fields up to 10,000 times greater than conventional accelerators. More>

IMG Expert Review Goes Primetime

Scientists at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and the Biological Data Management and Technology Center (BDMTC) in the Computational Research Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have launched the Expert Review (ER) version of the Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) system. IMG ER supports and enhances the review and revision of annotations for both publicly available genome datasets and those newly released from private institutions. More>

Technology Features:
NERSC Builds Gateways for Science Sharing

Programmers at NERSC are working with science users to design custom web browser interfaces and analytics tools, a service called “science gateways,” which will make it easier for them to share their data with a larger community of researchers. More>

Speeding Up Science Data Transfers Between Department of Energy Facilities

The ability to move and share data is essential to scientific collaboration, and in support of this activity network and systems engineers from the Department of Energy's Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) are teaming up to optimize wide-area network (WAN) data transfers. More>

Computing Sciences Newsbytes:

NERSC Delivers 59.9 Petabytes of Storage with Cutting-Edge Technology

NERSC’s High Performance Storage System (HPSS) can now hold 59.9 petabytes of scientific data — equivalent to all the music, videos or photos that could be stored on approximately 523,414 iPod classics filled to capacity. This 37-petabyte increase in HPSS storage was made possible by deploying cutting-edge technologies — the SunT10000 generation B-tape drive, which holds one terabyte of data on a single cartridge, and three Sun Slimline 8500 tape libraries, which add 15,000 new cartridge slots to the system. More>

VisIt Now Available On Franklin

Now that VisIt, one of the most popular frameworks for scientific visualization, is available on Franklin, users can run their simulations on the machine and visualize the output there too. More>

ESnet Installs New 10-Gigabit Connections

From New England to Nashville, and across the Great Plains, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) added a several 10-gigabit lines to their nationwide backbone in the past three months to enhance international science collaborations. More>

NEW to Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Team

Introducing: Eric Pouyoul, Computer Scientist for ESnet’s Advanced Technologies Group, and Mark Howison, Computer Systems Engineer in the Berkeley Lab's Visualization and Analytics Group. More>

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Photo Highlight: Bay Area Scientific Computing Day Returns to the Berkeley Lab