Technology Features:
ESnet Wins 2009 Excellence.Gov Award for Effectively Leveraging Technology

ESnet was honored with an Excellence.Gov award for innovative uses of switching and routing technologies in its Science Data Network, a recently completed network infrastructure running over a dedicated optical infrastructure to provide highly reliable, high-bandwidth connectivity to support and advance the US scientific competitiveness by linking scientists at national laboratories and universities across the country. More>

PerfSONAR Helps Accelerate Big Science Collaborations

PerfSONAR is an open-source monitoring and diagnostic system that boots from a CD, uses a low-cost Linux computer as a host and takes just 10 minutes to configure. Once it’s up, perfSONAR can perform regular tests of a network and provide engineers with the information necessary to find and fix network bottlenecks. The framework was developed through a global collaboration consortium led by the ESnet, GÉANT2, Internet2 and RNP. More> 

ESnet Connects STAR to Asian Collaborators

ESnet, KREON2 and GLORIAD achieved a sustained data transfer rate of 1 gigabit per second (Gbps) between the Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information. This capability will make 20 percent more data available to the STAR nuclear physics community per year, and close a digital divide between U.S. and Asian physicists. More>

Computing Sciences Newsbytes:
NERSC Increases System Storage and Security for Users

In March and April, Franklin underwent a series of upgrades to improve the I/O capabilities of the system; an additional 110 terabytes of storage was added to the NERSC Global Filesystem (NGF); upgrades to NERSC’s SSH Daemon server improved security and the performance of long-haul transfers of massive datasets. More>

CRD's Cecilia Aragon is One of Hispanic Business Magazine's 2009 Women of Vision

Hispanic Business magazine has honored Cecilia Aragon as one of 25 Women of Vision in 2009.  As a staff scientist in the Computational Research Division at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Aragon researches and develops collaborative visual interfaces to foster scientific insight. She is also a founding member of Latinas in Computing and active in diversity and outreach programs at the Lab. More>

Berkeley Lab Hosts Bay Area Scientific Computing Day on May 9

This year marks the 10th anniversary of The Bay Area Scientific Computing Day (BASCD). For this occasion, Berkeley Lab, which organized the first BASCD in 2000, will host the event in the Building 66 Auditorium on Saturday, May 9, 2009. More>

NEW to Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Team

Introducing: Stefan Lasiewski, NERSC Senior Server Team Engineer, and Mary Beedle, Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Business Team Analyst More>

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