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New experimental capabilities

Extending our scientific leadership

Modernizing our site infrastructure

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Superfacility is a conceptual model of seamless connection between experimental facilities and high performance computing resources—an integrated and automated system for gathering scientific data, transporting it anywhere in the blink of an eye, and analyzing it in real time. Staff at Berkeley Lab are working to standardize, automate, and scale up the processes needed for superfacility at Berkeley Lab and, through collaboration, across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and beyond.

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