Lucky Catch: Oldest, Most Distant Type Ia Supernova Confirmed By...
Paul Preuss, paul_preuss@lbl.gov BERKELEY, CA — An exploding star dubbed SN 1997ff, caught once on purpose and twice by accident by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, is the oldest and most distant Type...
View ArticleNERSC Has World’s Most Powerful Unclassified Supercomputer
John Hules, jahules@lbl.gov BERKELEY, CA — In the latest ranking of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers, a 2,528-processor IBM RS/6000 SP system at the U. S. Department of Energy’s [...]
View ArticleWORLD’S LARGEST UNCLASSIFIED SUPERCOMPUTER GOES ONLINE: Scientists Already...
Contact: Jon Bashor, (510) 486-5849, JBashor@lbl.gov BERKELEY, CA — Scientists at universities and national laboratories across the country are now tapping into the power of the world’s largest...
View ArticleVISTA gives a wide view of genomic comparisons
Contact: Paul Preuss, paul_preuss@lbl.gov Inna Dubchak of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), located at Berkeley Lab, has specialized in computer programs to make...
View ArticleIBM and DOE Supercomputing Center to Transform Far-Flung Supercomputers into...
Contact: John Buscemi, IBM jbuscemi@us.ibm.com 914-766-4495 or Jon Bashor, NERSC JBashor@lbl.gov 510-486-5849 BERKELEY, CA — ARMONK, NY and BERKELEY, CA, March 22, 2002 — IBM and the U.S. Department...
View ArticleSupernovae Coming at You —— In 3D
Contact: Paul Preuss, paul_preuss@lbl.gov; Jon Bashor, jbashor@lbl.gov The startling announcement in 1998 that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate — followed not long after by evidence...
View ArticleThe BioSig system: finding new meaning in microscopy
Contact: Paul Preuss, paul_preuss@lbl.gov “Cell biologists love a good microscope image,” according to Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff of Berkeley Lab’s Life Sciences Division, “but a radiation biologist is...
View ArticleNERSC Helps Climate Scientists Complete First-Ever 1,000-Year Run of...
Jon Bashor, (510) 486-5849, jbashor@lbl.gov BERKELEY, CA — Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have just completed a 1,000-year run of a powerful new climate system...
View ArticleNERSC to Offer 10 Teraflop/s System by Early 2003
Contact: Jon Bashor, 510-486-5849, JBashor@lbl.gov BERKELEY, CA — – The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center has signed a contract with IBM to...
View ArticleDOE’s NERSC Center deploys 10 teraflops per second IBM supercomputer
Media Contact: Jon Bashor, (510) 486-5849, JBashor@lbl.gov BERKELEY, CA — The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science,...
View ArticleCray Inc. Tests Red Storm Systems Software at NERSC Center
Contact: Jon Bashor, JBashor@lbl.gov “Red Storm” is the name of a massively-parallel-processing supercomputer that Cray Inc. and the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories are developing...
View ArticleLaser Wakefield Acceleration: Channeling the Best Beams Ever
Contact: Paul Preuss, (510) 486-6249, paul_preuss@lbl.gov BERKELEY, CA – Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a giant step toward realizing the...
View ArticleProtein Dynamics on the Supercomputer Big Screen
Contact: Dan Krotz, dakrotz@lbl.gov Now playing at a supercomputer near you: proteins in action. Scientists from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley are using one the world’s most powerful computers to...
View ArticleNERSC’s Archiving Strategies Help JGI Genome Researchers Store and Sort...
Contact: Jon Bashor, jbashor@lbl.gov When researchers at the Production Genome Facility at DOE’s Joint Genome Institute found they were generating data so fast they couldn’t find anywhere to store the...
View ArticleThe Weirdest Type Ia Supernova Yet
Scientific contact: Peter Nugent, (510) 486-6492, penugent@lbl.gov Media contact: Paul Preuss, (510) 486-6249, paul_preuss@lbl.gov BERKELEY, CA — A group of scientists affiliated with the SuperNova...
View ArticleProf. Kathy Yelick Named New Director for DOE’s National Energy Research...
Media contact: Jon Bashor, jbashor@lbl.gov, 510-486-5849 BERKELEY, CA — Kathy Yelick, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley and an internationally recognized...
View ArticleNational Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Announces Acceptance of...
Contact: Jon Bashor, jbashor@lbl.gov, 510-486-5849 BERKELEY, CA and SEATTLE, WA – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Cray Inc. today announced the...
View ArticleDOE Allocates NERSC Supercomputing Resources to Research
Contact: Jon Bashor JBashor@lbl.gov, 510-486-5849 BERKELEY, Calif. — The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it is allocating about 10.4 million CPU hours on supercomputers at the National...
View ArticleCode Booster
The rush toward multicore processors in supercomputing and even in consumer electronics comes at the expense of the best available software. Samuel Williams and his colleagues in the Computational...
View ArticleMulticore: Fallout From a Computing Evolution
It's not just for big science anymore. NERSC Director Kathy Yelick discusses the future of parallel computing.
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