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2010
December 2010: NERSC's Hopper Breaks Petaflops Barrier, Berkeley Scientists Research Clean Energy Technologies with USA's Fastest Computer; Magellan Project Wins "Best Use of HPC in the Cloud"; International Cloud Computing Conference Awards Best Paper to Berkeley Lab Team; January 2011 Workshop to Focus on Manycore- and Accelerator-based HPC; Berkeley Lab Team Develops Flexible Reservation Algorithm for Advance Network Provisioning: Berkeley Lab Rolls Into New Orleans for SC10; ESnet and Collaborators Achieve 100 Gbps Data Flow to SC10; NERSC's Franklin Ranked #2 on Graph 500 List; NERSC’s Bautista, Shalf Create SC10 Showcase for Disruptive Technologies. In the News: The Register-Jonathan Carter Talks About Supercomputing from Idea to Reality; CNN.com-Supercomputing's New World Order; HPC Source-Sensing the Future of Greener Data Centers; HPC Source-Dirac Testbed Reveals How Applications Are Written; IBM Case Study-NERSC Creates an Ultra-Efficient Supercomputer; and PhysOrg.com-New Globus Online Service to Use the Grid for High-Performance File Transfer.
November 2010-SC10 Edition: NERSC Highlighted in SC10 Technical Program; Expert Perspectives on HPC's Hot Topics; In the Berkeley Lab Booth: Talks, Roundtable Discussions, Demos and Posters; Berkeley Lab Demos, Live From SC10; Talk to Our Recruiter About Opportunities at Berkeley Lab; Send a Note Home on Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Postcards; and Berkeley Lab Staff Contribute to SC10's Success.
October 2010: Computing for the Environment; Slideshow: Outreach from Atlanta to Berkeley;
Berkeley Lab Staff Comment on the New Energy-Efficient Ethernet Standard; HPC Wire: For Proprietary HPC, Hope Springs Eternal; ISGTW: Image of the week - A better supernova model.
September 2010: Horst Simon Named Deputy Director for Berkeley Lab; Kathy Yelick Named Associate Lab Director for Computing Sciences;
Berkeley Lab and Princeton Scientists Watch Stars Explode in 3D; Researchers Tackle Supercomputing Challenges with $6.3 Million; Katie Antypas Appointed NERSC User Services Group Lead, Time.com: The Supernova's Secrets Cracked at Last?; insideHPC: John Shalf a "Rock Star of HPC"; Marquette University Features NERSC Intern Christine Matheney: and Introducing: Praveen Narayanan, Annette Greiner and Hasan Metin Aktulga.
August 2010: Speeding Up Models of Table-top Accelerators; Shedding Light on Protein-Salt Interactions;
Jonathan Carter Named New Deputy for Berkeley Lab Computing Science; Juan Meza Jumps into Berkeley Lab's Carbon Cycle 2.0 Smackdown; PHOTOSTORY: Computational Summer School at NERSC; NERSC Users Persson, Wilkening Win Early Career Awards; Scientific Computing: Energy-Efficient HPC Is Heating Up; International Science Grid This Week: Relativistic Reference Frames Speed Simulations; HPC Source: A Big Picture Approach to Scientific Data Storage; and Introducing: Filipe Maia.
July 2010: Northern California National Laboratories Are the First U.S. Stops for LHC’s ALICE Data, Berkeley Lab Contributes Expertise to New Amazon Web Services Offering;Computer Simulations Show That "Sweaty" Flowers Cool the World; For Platinum Catalysts, Smaller May Be Better; Researchers Explore Exascale Computing for Energy Security; PHOTOSTORY: The Next Generation of Computer Scientists; NERSC User William H. Miller Honored With Ahmed Zewail Prize; NERSC User Inez Fung Joins Academia Sinica; Planck Mission Delivers First All-Sky Image; In the News: NERSC's John Shalf Talks Parallel Programming Languages with ISGTW; and Introducing: Jim Mellander and Matthew "Cody" Rotermund.
June 2010: Berkeley Lab Team Receives NASA Award;Computers Give Insights into Generating Power Like the Sun; NERSC and HDF Group Optimize HDF5 Library to Improve I/O Performance ;Grace Hopper Powers Science on NERSC's New Cray XE6; Video Blog Chronicles ISC Conference in Germany; Register Now for Virtual Summer School in Computing; Peter Ungaro Outlines Future Directions in Talk at NERSC; PHOTO STORY: Oakland Tech Students Tour NERSC Machine Room, Get Souvenirs; How a Summer Internship—or a Weekend Lecture—Can Change a Life; and Introducing: Brian Austin.
May 2010: Victor Markowitz Is Appointed JGI CIO and Associate Director; Simulations Reveal That Earth's Silica Is Predominantly Superficial; Berkeley Lab Scientists Build Software Framework for ATLAS Collaboration; A New Global Climate Model May Reduce the Uncertainty of Climate Forecasting; A New System at NERSC; Carver Goes into Production; NERSC Hosts ScicomP 16 in San Fancisco; Four NERSC Users Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; NERSC Authors Win Best Paper Award at Cray User Group Meeting; NERSC Launches New Analytics Server, "Euclid"; NERSC Puts Dirac into Testing
April 2010: NERSC and JGI Join Forces to Tackle Genomics High Performance Computing; NERSC Users Find That Nanodroplets of Water Can Manipulate Graphene; Why Does Matter Dominate Our Universe?; ERSC Helps Locate Jupiter's Missing Neon; NERSC, ESnet and JGI Explore Hardware as a Service; Highlight: Computer Science Terms Explained in Video and New to NERSC: Kirsten Fagnan.
March 2010: NERSC Helps Shed Light on the Nature of Antimatter; Baby Brutes: Simulations Help Solve the Mysteries of Massive Young Star-Forming Galaxies; NISE to Award 29 Million Computing Hours at NERSC in 2010; Exploring Cloud Computing for DOE’s Scientific Mission; The Evolving Ecosystem for Parallel Software; The Role of Exascale Computing in Energy Security and Exascale Supercomputing Advances Climate Research.
March 2010: NERSC Helps Shed Light on the Nature of Antimatter; Baby Brutes: Simulations Help Solve the Mysteries of Massive Young Star-Forming Galaxies; NISE to Award 29 Million Computing Hours at NERSC in 2010; Exploring Cloud Computing for DOE’s Scientific Mission; The Evolving Ecosystem for Parallel Software; The Role of Exascale Computing in Energy Security and Exascale Supercomputing Advances Climate Research.
February 2010: A Computational Science Approach for Studying Culture; Madly Mapping the Universe; Berkeley Lab Receives New Grants to Research Complex Systems; Hopper (Phase 1) Prepares NERSC for Petascale Computing; Historic Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Data, Carried by ESnet, Lives on at NERSC; CRD, NERSC Staff Active at SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing and Introducing: Hemant Shukla and Robert Preissl.
January 2010: A Good Match for Thermoelectric;, ESnet Completes Implementation of DNS Security; Cecilia Aragon Receives PECASE Award from President Obama; John Bell Named Co-Organize of AMS Von Neumann Symposium; and Introducing: Jerry Chou, Margie Wylie and Wendy Wolfson Tsabba.
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