CS Highlight:

Lin-Wang Wang Writes Energy & Environmental Science Cover Story

The September 2009 issue of Energy & Environmental Science features a cover story by Lin-Wang Wang of CRD’s Scientific Computing Group.
The cover image shows a visualization of the exciton wave function at the interface of a ZnS/ZnO nanorod, with the sun and NERSC’s Franklin Cray XT supercomputer in the background.

Wang’s article, discusses the current status of large computational capability and future challenges for nanostructure solar cell simulations, with a focus on atomistic ab initio simulations for inorganic nanocrystal systems.

Science Features:

Computer Code Gives Astrophysicists First Full Simulation of Star's Final Hours

A team of researchers, composed of three applied mathematicians at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and two astrophysicists, has created the first full-star simulation of the hours preceding the largest thermonuclear explosions in the universe. More>

NERSC Contributes to EMGeo Mapping Software for Finding Hidden Oil and Gas Reserves

As the world’s demand for energy increases, billions of dollars are dedicated to the search for deep-water hydrocarbon reservoirs each year. Now a new 3D imaging software called EMGeo is leveraging the unique capabilities of massively parallel computers to help investigators discriminate between reservoir fluids like oil, gas and brine, more efficiently. More>

Newsbytes:

NEW to Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Team

Introducing: Aleksandar Donev, Nick Wright, Christopher Calderon and Hans Johansen More>

Berkeley Lab to Collaborate with University of Tokyo IT Center

Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences has signed a memorandum of understanding establishing a research collaboration with the University of Tokyo Information Technology Center. The research will involve high performance computing (HPC), computational science, and optimization of applications performance on HPC systems. More>

ASCR Discovery: Reanalysis Project Targets Once-and-Future Weather

Storms and blizzards made headlines throughout the late 19th and 20th centuries. But it’s the humble recordings of lows and highs during those unforgettable events that scientists are harvesting now. They hope a computationally intense reanalysis of weather over the past 150 years on will tell them whether today’s storms are more extreme and if climate prediction models can be trusted for this purpose. Much of this work was done on NERSC's Cray XT4, Franklin System. More>

Apply Now for the 2010 Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computing Sciences

The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the Computational Research Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory invite applications for the Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship in Computational Science. The fellowship allows recent graduates with a Ph.D. (or equivalent) to acquire further scientific training at one of the leading facilities for scientific computing and to develop professional maturity for independent research. More>

CITRIS Research Exchange Seminar Schedules for Fall 2009

The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society — CITRIS — creates information technology solutions for many of our most pressing social, environmental, and health care problems. The center collaborates extensively with researchers from the Berkeley Lab's CRD and NERSC. The CITRIS Research Exchange holds public talks on the UC Berkeley campus every Wednesday to discuss how emerging IT technologies can be used to solve global humanitarian problems. More>

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