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2011
December 2011: Scientific Networking Division Created as New Home to ESnet; Supercomputers Take a Cue from Microwave Ovens; Today's Severe Drought, Tomorrow's Normal; Catching Extreme Weather Events in Climate Models; Closest-Ever Look at the Explosion of a Type Ia Supernova; Co-Designing Exascale Architectures and Algorithms for Real-World Combustion Simulations; NERSC's Steve Lowe: Driven to High Performance Machines; Berkeley Lab Reaches Out to Women in Computing; A Look Back at SC11; New York Times: Computer Scientists May Have What It Takes to Help Cure Cancer; Space.com: Cosmic Autopsy Reveals Youngest Supernova's Origins; Danger of Death: Are We Programmed to Miscalculate Risk?; and Introducing: Daithi Stone and Jack Deslippe.
November 2011 SC Edition: Join Us For A Toast to ESnet: 25 Years of Networking Leadership!; Berkeley Lab Highlighted in SC11 Technical Program; Berkeley Lab Booth Features Perspectives on HPC's Hot Topics; In Our Booth; Berkeley Lab Demos; Live From SC11; Talk to Our Recruiter About Opportunities at Berkeley Lab; Berkeley Researchers Contribute to Special Issue of IEEE's Computer Driven to High Performance Machines; Berkeley Lab Experts on Energy Efficiency; Send a Note Home on Berkeley Lab Postcards; Berkeley Lab Staff Contribute to SC11's Success.
October 2011: NERSC Played Key Role in Nobel Discovery; Supercomputers Accelerate Development
of Advanced Materials; ESnet, Internet2 Complete 100G Networking Path; Experimental Mathematics; Across the Cosmos, a Gang of Supernovae Reveals a Cosmic Secret; Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division Announces Reorganization; Two ESnet Projects Are Honored With Internet2 IDEA Awards, Public-Private Collaborative Demo Leveraged New ESnet Advanced Networking Initiative Testbed; Berkeley Lab's Open House Draws 4,500 Visitors; Scientific Computing: Leading ESnet to the Next Level of Innovation; GCN: DOE Completes First Cross-Country 100-Gigabit Network; and Microsoft Research and Cray Websites Highlight CRD and NERSC Research.
September 2011: Turning Grass into Gas for Less; A Better Lithium-Ion Battery; Kathy Yelick Appointed to National Academies Computer Science Board; 2011 Alvarez Fellows Begin Research at Berkeley Lab; The Path to Interoperability Passes through Rio; Supernova Viewing at Chabot Space and Science Center Draws 700 People; Michael Wehner to Give Invited Talk at Climate Change Beijing; PBS News Hour: Supernova Burns Bright in a Galaxy Not So Far Away, HPC Wire: UC San Diego Research Network Aids in Recent Supernova Discovery; The Conversation: Where is everybody? Doing the maths on extraterrestrial life; QUEST: Engineering Fire and Introducing: Michael Bartkowiak, ESnet Infrastructure Team.
August 2011: Scientists Catch a Young Supernova in the Act; Small Particles, Big Impact; Programming Exascale Systems; ASCR Discovery: Science at the Exascale; Berkeley Researchers Receive Prizes at ICIAM 2011; Vern Paxson Honored for Contributions to Internet Measurement, Security; ESnet Launches Portal with Easy Access to Network Data; Jay Srinivasan Named NERSC’s Computational Systems Group Lead; Book on Science of Music Cites Keith Jackson's Work with Mickey Hart; UC Davis Computer Security, Privacy and Cybervillainy COSMOS Cluster Visits Berkeley Lab; The Register: Supercomputer and Superboffins Spot Rare Baby Supernova; NPR: Curbing Supercomputers' Growing Drain on Energy; Internet Evolution: Superspeed Internet Pipeline Could Speed Innovation; The Conversation: Magic Numbers and the Beauty of Decimal Notation; and Introducing: Lauren Rotman and Alex Slepoy.
July 2011: David L. Brown Named New Director of CRD;The Speed of Science: ESnet Lays Foundation for 100 Gpbs; Magellan Tackles the Mysterous Proton Spin; NERSC Increases Scientific Productivity With Data Tracking; ESnet Tells the World Bandwidth on Demand Will Only Get You So Far; TechWomen Visit Lab; Taghrid Samak Serves As Cultural Mentor; Berkeley Lab Hosts International AstroComputing Summer School; MIT Technology Review: A Network for Wild Experimentation; GCN: Energy building 100-gigabit/sec network to handle data 'explosion'; ISGTW: Science Clouds 2011 debunks cloud myths and more.
June 2011: At Solar System's Edge, There Be ... Bubbles? ; ESnet Celebrates World IPv6 Day; Berkeley Lab Expertise Tapped in ISC'11 Videos; Hopper Among World's Top 10 Fastest Computers; Jamie Sethian Is Named Einstein Visiting Fellow in Berlin; Kevin Oberman Engineered Engaging Career at ESnet; Berkeley Lab Staff Add HPC Expertise to ISC'11 ; NERSC Honored for HPC Innovations Excellence; David Leinweber Named One of Top 10 Innovators of Decade in Trading Industry; ESnet's OSCARS Honored in UC Larry L. Sautter Award Program; ICCS Members Collaborate on Award-Winning Paper; The Economist: Parallel Bars; KQED QUEST: Supercomputers Hit an Energy Wall; HPCWire: Heterogeneous Computing and HPC Accelerators, Disruptive Technologies in the Making; ISGTW: The Case of the Missing Proton Spin; and introducing Xuefei (Rebecca) Yuan and Aaron Thomas.
June 2011: At Solar System's Edge, There Be ... Bubbles? ; ESnet Celebrates World IPv6 Day; Berkeley Lab Expertise Tapped in ISC'11 Videos; Hopper Among World's Top 10 Fastest Computers; Jamie Sethian Is Named Einstein Visiting Fellow in Berlin; Kevin Oberman Engineered Engaging Career at ESnet; Berkeley Lab Staff Add HPC Expertise to ISC'11 ; NERSC Honored for HPC Innovations Excellence; David Leinweber Named One of Top 10 Innovators of Decade in Trading Industry; ESnet's OSCARS Honored in UC Larry L. Sautter Award Program; ICCS Members Collaborate on Award-Winning Paper; The Economist: Parallel Bars; KQED QUEST: Supercomputers Hit an Energy Wall; HPCWire: Heterogeneous Computing and HPC Accelerators, Disruptive Technologies in the Making; ISGTW: The Case of the Missing Proton Spin; and introducing Xuefei (Rebecca) Yuan and Aaron Thomas.
May 2011: Petaflops Power to NERSC! ; Proton Dripping Tests a Fundamental Force in Nature; ESnet Blog: Shaping Hybrid Networks to Come; DOE Office of Science: Superfast Search Engine Speeds Past the Competition; Berkeley's James Demmel Elected to National Academy of Sciences; David Culler Appointed Faculty Director of i4Energy Center; Computing Sciences Staff Give 11 Talks at the Cray User Group Meeting; International Science Grid This Week: Strong Force Model Predicts New Isotope; DOE Blog: Researchers Say They've Solved the Mystery of LED Lighting "Droop," Slideshow: Hopper's Journey to Acceptance.
April 2011: NERSC Helps Solve LED Efficiency Puzzle; Record-setting Antimatter Particle Detected with NERSC Help; "Drag and Drop Archiving" Earns Innovation Award for NERSC; ESnet Blog: Using perfSONAR to Find Network Anomalies; Cracking an "Impossible" Calculation; Berkeley Lab's Kathy Yelick Co-Authors NRC Report on Computer Performance; Berkeley Lab's Bruce Bargmeyer Honored for Contributions to Technology Standards; NERSC Users Showered With Scientific Accolades; Berkeley Lab Reps Climb the Hill to Brief Congress/Staffers; Berkeley Lab Contributes to Sold-Out Tapia Conference; HPC Wire: IBM Supercomputer Reveals More Pieces of Pi; Eureka Alert: LED efficiency puzzle solved by UC Santa Barbara theorists; InsideHPC: The Statistical Properties of Lustre Server-side I/O; Telecom Reseller: The Rise of IPv6: Worldwide Lab Tests and NERSC and ESnet Launch New Websites.
March 2011: NERSC Helps Illuminate 'Dark''Galaxies; Boosting the Next Wave of Accelerators; ESnet Blog: IT In Depth at DUSEL; ASCR Discovery: Team Ratchets Up Accuracy for Identifying Protein Bits; A New Book Explores Performance Analysis; Juan Meza Is Named One of Top 200 Most Influential Hispanics in Technology; Japanese University Delegation Visits Berkeley Lab to Discuss Potential Collaborations; Berkeley Lab Staff Contribute to the SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering; Video Glossary: ESnet Experts Define Their Terms; Berkeley Lab Hosts Albany High Students on Job Shadow Day; SULI Students Visit NERSC; GCN: Why High-Performance Clouds Are Best Kept In-house; HPCwire: New Computer Science Book Explores Performance Analysis; Markest: DOE Technology Enables High-speed Data Transfer; and Introducing: Patrick Dorn, Oliver Ruebel and Slim Chourou.
February 2011: A Goldilocks Catalyst; X-ray Image Bank Open for Business; ESnet Upgrades Network Performance Knowledge Base; Two Berkeley Lab Researchers Named 2011 Sloan Fellows; Kennedy High School Students Visit NERSC; NERSC Users Elected to National Academy of Engineering; Berkeley Lab Hosts Successful Workshop on Manycore- and Accelerator-based HPC; HPC Wire: Carbon Sequestration Gets Supercomputing Boost; The East African: US scientists predict prolonged drought as Indian Ocean warms up; CNN Money: Why we still can't prevent flash crashes; and Introducing: Michael Sinatra, Ravinderjeet "Ravi" Cheema, Gopal Vaswani and Jeffery Grounds.
January 2011: NERSC Computers Help Planck Peel Back Layers of Universe; Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Contributes to "Insights of the Decade"; A Climate Time Machine; A Clearer Picture of Carbon Sequestration; NERSC Users Unlock the Secret of a Rechargeable Heat Battery; Engineering Mixed Traffic on ANI Testbed; Local Teens Get a Lesson in Job-Hunting and Parallel Computing; Kathy Yelick to Speak at JGI User Meeting in March; NERSC User James Drake Receives 2010 APS Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics; InsideHPC: Berkeley Lab Developed Flexible Reservation Algorithm for Network Provisioning; Vizworld: Visualization at Supercomputing Centers and Introducing: Joerg Meyer, Chaopeng Shen and WangYi "Bobby" Liu.
