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NERSC Staff Gear Up for SC24
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis—known this year as SC24—is a primary event for connection and learning in the HPC community. Many staff from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) will be sharing their expertise on a range of topics. Read More »
California Poet Laureate Captures "Heart" of NERSC's Work
On October 22, California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick attended the 50th anniversary NERSC User Group Annual Meeting and presented an original poem, composed for the occasion, titled “The Heart as a Universe.” Read More »
Berkeley Lab AI Science Summit Fuels Collaboration to Tackle Scientific Challenges
This month, over 100 academics, researchers, industry experts, and national lab staff gathered at Berkeley Lab’s Artificial Intelligence Science Summit (BLASS) to explore AI’s potential to drive scientific discovery. Read More »
NERSC Art Contest Winners Show Beauty in Science
To celebrate the beauty found in 50 years of science research, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is pleased to announce the winners of the NERSC 50th Anniversary Science as Art Contest, announced Tuesday, October 22 at the 50th anniversary edition of the NERSC User Group Annual Meeting. Read More »
NERSC Marks 50 Years of Accelerating Science
From October 22–24, NERSC commemorates 50 years of accelerating scientific discovery with a special edition of the NERSC User Group Annual Meeting. Read More »
Data Leaders Put Heads Together in Monterey
In late August, 180 experts and leaders from across the computing landscape gathered at the Monterey Data Conference (MDC) on the beautiful California coast to discuss that life cycle, highlighting and discussing the latest advances and continuing challenges in scientific data analysis and computing. Read More »
Tune In To NERSC's 50th Anniversary User Meeting Via Zoom
In 2024, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) marks 50 years of accelerating scientific discovery through high performance computing. NERSC’s 50th year culminates with a special expanded version of its NERSC Annual User Meeting taking place October 22–24, and you can join in virtually via a Zoom broadcast. Read More »
David Baker Wins Nobel Prize for Chemistry
David Baker, a computational biologist and professor of biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington, and prolific user of the systems at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), has been awarded a Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work in computational protein design. Read More »
Bailey to Explore DESI Collab for NERSC@50
On Monday, September 30 at 1:30 p.m. PDT on Zoom, Berkeley Lab Senior Software Developer Stephen Bailey will illuminate the collaboration between the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and NERSC, and how it’s changing the role of HPC in experimental science research. Read More »
Bell Gets in the Flow for NERSC@50
On Monday, September 16 at 1:30 p.m. PDT, join Berkeley Lab Senior Scientist John Bell for an exciting seminar on NERSC’s long history of supporting fluid dynamics research, with repercussions from a cup of coffee all the way out into space. Read More »
Voting Now Open in NERSC Science as Art Competition
The NERSC community is invited to rate entries in our 50th Anniversary Science as Art Competition. Deadline September 15, 2024. Read More »
Nugent to Illuminate Astrophysics at NERSC in Upcoming Seminar
To celebrate NERSC's long history of supporting the study of astrophysical transients, Berkeley Lab Applied Math and Computational Research Division Deputy Peter Nugent will give his talk “A Quarter Century of Transient Science and Its Impact on Cosmology at NERSC,” part of the NERSC@50 seminar series. Read More »
Spotlight Falls on Accelerator Science in Next NERSC@50 Seminar
In his talk Faster! Faster! Highlights in Particle Accelerator Research at NERSC, Berkeley Lab senior scientist Jean-Luc Vay will present highlights of particle accelerator simulations performed at NERSC over the past decades as well as ongoing work and future directions for the field. Read More »
Julian Borrill Talks Cosmology at NERSC in Upcoming Seminar
Find out about NERSC’s role in cosmological research and big data as Berkeley Lab Physics Division scientist gives his talk “Big Bang, Big Data, Big Iron: 50 Years of Cosmic Microwave Background Studies at NERSC”, part of the NERSC@50 anniversary seminar series. Join the seminar on Monday, August 5 at 1:30 p.m. PDT on Zoom. Read More »
Ruby Leung to Highlight NERSC's Role in Climate Modeling
Ruby Leung of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will discuss her work on Earth system modeling and the role NERSC plays as part of the NERSC@50 seminar series. Read More »
Kjiersten Fagnan to Report on Vibrant JGI-NERSC Collaboration
Tune in Monday, July 22 at 1:30 p.m. PDT on Zoom to learn about NERSC's vibrant collaboration with JGI—past successes, scientific discoveries, and the path forward—with JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan. Read More »
Zaida McCunney Retires After 25 Years at Berkeley Lab
NERSC Administrative Supervisor Zaida McCunney retired at the end of June after a long career at Berkeley Lab. Read More »
CS Chang to Speak on State of Fusion Research at NERSC
NERSC was founded in 1974 to support nuclear fusion research – and on June 24, the NERSC@50 seminar series returns to those roots as Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory researcher CS Chang presents on his work and the state of fusion research at NERSC. Read More »
Dula Parkinson to Present on ALS and Superfacility for NERSC@50
The NERSC@50 seminar series continues on June 17 with Dula Parkinson, the Program Lead for Diffraction and Imaging at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a proud NERSC user since 2010. The seminar, in honor of NERSC’s 50th anniversary, will take place at 1:30 p.m. PDT on Zoom. Read More »
David Baker Talks Protein Design on June 3
On June 3 at 1:30 p.m. PDT, the NERSC@50 seminar series welcomes David Baker of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington. Join us for his presentation on prediction and design of protein interactions and how he’s using NERSC resources in his work to solve some of humanity's pressing problems. Read More »
Manos Mavrikakis to Deliver Next NERSC@50 Seminar
The NERSC@50 seminar series celebrating NERSC’s 50th anniversary continues Monday, May 20, at 1:30 p.m. on Zoom, with Manos Mavrikakis of the University of Wisconsin-Madison discussing the reaction-driven formation of novel active sites on catalytic surfaces. Read More »
NERSC@50 Seminar Series Kicks off April 15
In celebration of NERSC’s 50th anniversary, NERSC staff and users will gather online for the NERSC@50 seminar series, a special collection of talks reflecting on NERSC’s legacy of advancing science through HPC and what’s on deck for the next 50 years. Read More »
NERSC Quantum Team Wins Prestigious Hans Meuer Award
A team studying quantum computing at Berkeley Lab has been awarded the prestigious Hans Meuer Award, which annually recognizes the most outstanding paper submitted to the ISC High Performance computing conference in Hamburg, Germany. Read More »
"A Problem Solver and a Forward Thinker": Jackie Scoggins Reflects on Time at NERSC
Former NERSC systems analyst Jackie Scoggins reflects on her time at NERSC as part of In Their Own Words, a Q&A series celebrating NERSC's 50th anniversary. Read More »
50 Years of NERSC Firsts
From its humble beginnings in 1974 to today, we present NERSC firsts and highlights over its 50 year history. Read More »
NERSC Celebrates 50 Years in 2024
In 2024, NERSC will celebrate the latest of many milestones: 50 years of service to the global science community. Read More »
NERSC 50th Anniversary Year Kicks Off at SC23
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) turns 50 in 2024, and celebrations are already underway. Read More »
Perlmutter System Played Role in Two 2023 Gordon Bell Prize Winning Projects
The two teams that were awarded the 2023 ACM Gordon Bell Prize and the first-ever Gordon Bell Climate Modeling Prize both used the Perlmutter supercomputer as part of their winning research efforts. Read More »
Five Early-Career Researchers Honored with NERSC Achievement Awards
At the November NERSC User Group monthly meeting, five NERSC users were honored with NERSC High Performance Computing (HPC) Achievement Awards, which annually recognize early-career scientists who have made significant contributions to scientific computation using NERSC resources. Read More »
Berkeley Lab CS Area to Share Computing Expertise at SC23
Berkeley Lab researchers, scientists, and engineers are participating in a variety of tutorials, workshops, panels, technical papers, and posters as part of SC23's technical program. Read More »
Perlmutter Supercomputer Supports Two 2023 Gordon Bell Finalists
The Perlmutter supercomputer at NERSC helped two research projects become nominated for the Gordon Bell Prize, to be awarded at SC23. Read More »
Sudip Dosanjh to Focus on NERSC’s Past, Present, and Future in Featured Presentation at SC23
As part of the kickoff of NERSC’s 50th anniversary in 2024, NERSC Director Sudip Dosanjh will reflect on the facility’s first 50 years and look ahead to the next exciting chapters during a featured presentation in the DOE booth at SC23. Read More »
Berkeley Lab to Partner with Jefferson Lab to Build $300+ Million High Performance Data Facility Hub
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the selection of Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) as the lead for its new High Performance Data Facility Hub. Jefferson Lab will partner with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) to form a joint project team led by Jefferson Lab. Read More »
Berkeley Lab and NERSC Staff Honored with Six Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement
Six Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement will be awarded to Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences staff at an awards ceremony held on Wednesday, November 8. The Director’s Awards program recognizes the significant achievements of Lab employees. Read More »
DOE's First ‘Intro to HPC’ Bootcamp Focuses on Energy Justice and a New Model for Workforce Development
"Energy justice and workforce development were the driving themes of the DOE’s first “Introduction to High-Performance Computing Bootcamp,” held at Berkeley Lab August 7-11. The event was hosted by NERSC in collaboration with the Argonne and Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facilities and the Sustainable Horizons Institute and funded by the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project" Read More »
NERSC Accepting NESAP for Workflows Applications
Through October 2, NERSC is accepting applications from NERSC projects for NESAP for Workflows. Chosen teams will work with NERSC for one year to prepare for and better utilize advanced workflow capabilities such as hardware acceleration, reconfigurable storage, advanced scheduling, and integration with edge services, as well as alignment with the Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) initiative. Read More »
NERSC Summer Interns Feel the Thrill of HPC
Through the STEM Core program, students at Oakland’s Laney College have been working hard as summer interns at NERSC, preparing for further course work and future careers in HPC. Read More »
James Botts Reflects on a Decade at the State of the Art
NERSC HPC engineer James Botts retired June 29 as the longest-serving member of the Computational Systems Group. After a decade at NERSC, he reflects on his career, changes in HPC, and what comes next. Read More »
Antypas to Oversee NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Katie Antypas, division deputy at NERSC, has accepted a short-term position at the National Science Foundation (NSF) as the office director in the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure. In that role, her responsibilities will include overseeing the progress, acquisition, and provision of advanced computing and data, as well as networking resources, tools, and services for the academic and educational communities that the NSF supports. Read More »
Richard Gerber Named Hardware and Integration Director for ECP
Richard Gerber, HPC Department Head and Senior Science Advisor at NERSC, is taking on a new position as Hardware and Integration Director at the Exascale Computing Project, a collaborative effort across DOE labs to support exascale computing. Read More »
Rollin Thomas Recognized for Contributions to Project Jupyter
National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) engineer Rollin Thomas has been selected as a Project Jupyter Distinguished Contributor in appreciation of “substantial contributions to Jupyter itself in both quality and quantity over at least two years.” Read More »
NERSC and the HPC Community Bid Farewell to Cori Supercomputer
After nearly seven years of service, thousands of user projects, and tens of billions of compute hours, the Cori supercomputer at NERSC will be retired at the end of May. Read More »
Programming Environments and Models Group Addresses Shifting Needs of Users and HPC
As the HPC landscape grows in size and complexity, a new group at NERSC, the Programming Environments and Modeling Group, is addressing the expanding needs of the NERSC user community. Read More »
SC22 Student Cluster Competition Goes Hybrid with Chair Steve Leak
At the Supercomputing 2022 Conference, teams of high school and undergraduate students will push through to compete in the field of high performance computing (HPC). NERSC HPC Consultant Steve Leak will oversee them as the chair of the SC22 Student Cluster Competition.
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First-Ever Quantum for Science Day Brings HPC and QIS Together
On October 24, stakeholders from around the field of quantum information science (QIS) gathered virtually to discuss the state of the discipline at the first-ever Quantum for Science Day, hosted by the Quantum@NERSC team at Berkeley Lab. Read More »
NERSC Honors Early Career Researchers with 2022 Achievement Awards
NERSC recently announced the recipients of its annual High Performance Computing Achievement Awards, recognizing four early-career scientists who have made significant contributions to scientific computation. Read More »
Monterey Data Conference 2022: Ideas and Opportunities for Transforming Science with AI
This year’s Monterey Data Conference brought together researchers and representatives from DOE national labs, academia, and industry for a robust program designed around the theme of transforming science with artificial intelligence. Read More »
Jeff Broughton Looks Back, and Prepares for the Next Thing
After 13 years attending to the nuts and bolts of NERSC, and a long career in high powered computing before that, Deputy for Operations Jeff Broughton will retire at the end of June. Read More »
‘Recovering Scientist’ Calls it a Day
Mark Day, a self-proclaimed “recovering scientist” is retiring from NERSC and a 30-plus year career with the University of California system. Read More »
CUG 2022: NERSC Hosts an ‘Ecosystem of Discovery’ in Monterey
NERSC is hosting this year's Cray Users Group meeting in Monterey, Calif. May 2-5. Read More »
NERSC Pursues Growing Opportunities in Quantum Information Science
Recognizing that a combination of quantum and classical computing will be key to the application and adoption of quantum information resources, NERSC is preparing for the day QIS-enabled computing will be available to its user community. Read More »
Tina Declerck Named NERSC Deputy for Operations
Tina Declerck, Systems Department head at NERSC, has been named deputy for operations, applying her many years of experience managing compute systems at NERSC. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Honored for Contributions to Global Energy Management
Berkeley Lab received a 2021 Energy Management Insight Award from the Clean Energy Ministerial for helping to build awareness of ISO 50001 and contributing to global knowledge of energy management implementation. Read More »
NERSC Awards 250K GPU Node Hours on Perlmutter to 16 QIS Projects
Following a request for proposals issued in November 2021, NERSC has awarded a total of 250,000 Perlmutter GPU node hours to 16 quantum information science projects. Read More »
Quantum Information Science at Perlmutter
NERSC is seeking proposals to conduct research using NERSC’s Perlmutter supercomputer in the area of quantum information science. Read More »
In Memoriam: David Skinner
David Skinner, a gifted and highly regarded member of NERSC and the high performance computing community for more than 20 years, passed away unexpectedly in late August. Read More »
NERSC Honors Eight Early Career Scientists with Annual HPC Achievement Awards
NERSC recently announced the recipients of its annual High Performance Computing Achievement Awards, recognizing eight early-career scientists who have made significant contributions to scientific computation using NERSC resources. Read More »
Perlmutter Debuts in the Top 5 of the Top500
Just weeks after its official unveiling, the new Perlmutter supercomputer at NERSC has earned the number 5 position in the Top500 List with a performance benchmark of 64.6 Pflop/s. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Women of Quantum Computing Go Tiny in Big Ways
In the Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Area, the future of quantum information science is being driven in part by a group of women scientists who see that future - and theirs along with it - as quite bright. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Deploys Next-Gen Supercomputer, Perlmutter, Bolstering U.S. Scientific Research
NERSC formally unveiled the first phase of its next-generation supercomputer, Perlmutter, at a virtual event that included government dignitaries, industry leaders, and Dr. Perlmutter himself. Read More »
With Supercheck21, NERSC Opens International Checkpoint/Restart Dialogue
Earlier this month, NERSC hosted the First International Symposium on Checkpointing for Supercomputing (SuperCheck21). This free virtual event drew more than 250 participants from around the world. Read More »
NERSC, ALCF, Codeplay Partner on SYCL for Next-generation Supercomputers
NERSC, in collaboration with the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, has signed a contract with Codeplay Software to enhance the LLVM SYCL GPU compiler capabilities for NVIDIA A100 GPUs. Read More »
NERSC Hosts Virtual GPU Hackathon
Like most conferences, seminars, and workshops taking place this year across the country and around the world, the recent GPU hackathon hosted by NERSC was a fully virtual affair that served as an innovative model for what could be the next generation of HPC hackathons. Read More »
NERSC Summer Students Take Deep Learning to the Next Level
NERSC summer students this year focused on applying deep learning methods to an array of science applications, from weather and climate modeling to improving I/O scaling for GPUs. Read More »
DOE Honors NERSC Efficiency Optimization Team
The NERSC Efficiency Optimization Team was honored with a 2020 Department of Energy Sustainability Award in the Sustainable HPC/Data Center category. Read More »
ALCC Awards 4.45M Compute Hours at NERSC to 16 Projects
Sixteen research teams have been awarded a total of 4.45 million compute hours at NERSC through the 2020-2021 DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research’s Leadership Computing Challenge Read More »
Time is Ticking Away for NERSC Time Capsule of ‘Exotic Tech’
In 2006, staff members at NERSC created a time capsule, filling two bright orange canisters with various bits of then-current technology and sealing them up to be opened at the SC20 Conference, scheduled for November 15-20. Read More »
NERSC One of Early Adopters of New NVIDIA Chip
More than 6,000 A100 chips will be included in NERSC’s next-generation Perlmutter system that will be deployed at Berkeley Lab later this year. Read More »
NERSC’s Katie Antypas Steps Into New Role at Exascale Computing Project
NERSC's Katie Antypas will serve as ECP's new Director for the Hardware & Integration Focus Area Read More »
NERSC Finalizes Contract for Next-Generation Supercomputer
NERSC has moved another step closer to making its next-generation GPU-accelerated supercomputer available to the science community this year. In mid-April, NERSC finalized its contract with Cray for the Perlmutter system, Phase 1 of which will be deployed in late 2020. Read More »
Next-Generation HPC: NERSC Rolls Out New Community File System
Recognizing the evolving data management needs of its diverse user community, NERSC recently unveiled the Community File System, a long-term data storage tier developed in collaboration with IBM that is optimized for capacity and manageability. Read More »
NERSC, ESnet Continue to Deliver Supercomputing, Networking Support for Nation’s Scientists during Pandemic
While people around the world hunker down in their homes to try to slow the advance of the COVID-19 virus and many services have decreased or stopped, NERSC and ESnet continue to provide critical computing and networking resources to thousands of scientists, including some who are exploring ways to fight the pandemic. Read More »
Less is More: LBNL Breaks New Ground in Data Center Optimization
Berkeley Lab's decades of expertise in energy-efficient data centers is now being applied to NERSC resources through the Efficiency Optimization Project, a collaboration between NERSC, ETA, and Sustainable Berkeley Lab that is using operational data analytics to optimize cooling systems and save electricity. Read More »
NERSC Announces 2019 Early Career HPC Achievement Awards
Three young scientists who are avid users of supercomputing resources at NERSC have been chosen to receive 2019 High Performance Computing Early Career Achievement Awards. Read More »
NERSC Hosts HPCXXL, GPFS User Group Meetings
More than 100 people attended the recent HPCXXL and GPFS user meetings hosted by NERSC at Berkeley Lab. NERSC recently hosted two user group meetings at Berkeley Lab: HPCXXL, an international group previously known as SPXXL - and IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS). Held the week of September 23rd and attended by more than 100 users - including representatives from Oak Ridge and Los Alamos National Laboratories - these meetings provided an opportunity for sites with large supercomputing and storage… Read More »
Mural for Perlmutter System Unveiled
NERSC has unveiled the mural that will grace the cabinets of its next major high-performance computing system. The mural pays tribute to the system's namesake, Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter. The Berkeley Lab physicist led the team whose work at NERSC contributed the 2011 Nobel prize-winning insight that the universe’s expansion is speeding up. Read More »
NERSC, ECP Host OpenMP Hackathon for Energy-Efficient Architectures
NERSC and the Exascale Computing Project’s SOLLVE and ECP Training programs joined forces to sponsor a four-day OpenMP hackathon at Berkeley Lab, August 27-30, 2019. Read More »
First Monterey Data Conference does Deep Dive into Deep Learning for Science
The Computing Sciences Area at Berkeley Lab joined forces with the Association for High Speed Computing to organize and support the inaugural Monterey Data Conference, held August 5-8 in Monterey, Calif. Read More »
2019 ALCC Program Supports 10 Research Teams With 4 Million Node-Hours at NERSC
Each year, the DOE ALCC program awards computing time at Lawrence Berkeley, Argonne, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories to scientists from industry, academia, and national laboratories whose work emphasizes high-risk, high-payoff simulations in energy-related fields. Read More »
DL4Sci Workshop Puts New Data Analysis Tools into Scientists' Hands
NERSC recently hosted its first Deep Learning for Science School, with more than 175 scientists and students from DOE labs and university research groups participating in the week-long workshop. Read More »
NERSC Hosts First ‘GPUs for Science’ Workshop
More than 300 people from multiple national laboratories, academia, and industry attended the inaugural “GPUs for Science” workshop at Berkeley Lab, held July 2-3, 2019. Read More »
First Krell Institute Corones Award Goes to NERSC's Hartman-Baker
Rebecca Hartman-Baker, who leads NERSC's User Engagement Group, is the inaugural recipient of the Krell Institute’s James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building, and Communication. Read More »
NERSC, Cray, NVIDIA Share GPU Expertise at First Hackathon for Future Perlmutter Users
As part of the NERSC Exascale Science Application Program, NERSC recently hosted the first NERSC-9/Perlmutter hackathon to begin preparing key users for the next-generation architecture of the Perlmutter system. Read More »
NERSC's Edison Supercomputer to Retire after Five Years of Service
NERSC’s Edison supercomputer opened for production use on January 14, 2014. Now, after more than five years of providing supercomputing capability to Department of Energy projects, the system will be retired on May 13, 2019. Read More »
The ‘Little’ Computer Cluster That Could
NERSC's Parallel Distributed Systems Facility (PDSF) cluster, which had served as a steady workhorse in supporting groundbreaking and even Nobel-winning research around the world since the 1990s, switched off last month. Read More »
New NESAP Teams Start Prepping Applications for Next-Generation Perlmutter Architecture
NERSC has announced the latest round of NERSC Exascale Science Application Program (NESAP) teams that will focus on simulation, data analysis, and machine learning applications to prepare workloads for NERSC’s next supercomputer, Perlmutter. Read More »
NERSC, NVIDIA to Partner on Compiler Development for Perlmutter System
NERSC has signed a contract with NVIDIA to enhance GPU compiler capabilities for Berkeley Lab’s next-generation Perlmutter supercomputer. Read More »
NESAP Hosts First NERSC-9 GPU Hackathon for Application Developers
As part of NERSC’s commitment to preparing users and their applications for its next-generation Perlmutter supercomputer, the NERSC Exascale Science Applications Program recently hosted the first NERSC-9 GPU hackathon. Read More »
Long-time NERSC User Honored for Climate Modelling Work
Warren M. Washington—a long-time and distinguished NERSC principal investigator—was awarded the 2019 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement today. Read More »
NERSC Tape Archives Make the Move to Berkeley Lab’s Shyh Wang Hall
NERSC has embarked on a two-year archival data transfer project from its former home in Oakland, Calif. to two new tape libraries in Berkeley Lab's Shyh Wang Hall. Read More »
NERSC Adds New Layer of Security with MFA Authentication Requirement
Beginning this month, multi-factor authentication, a password security measure that provides extra protection against phishing and other digital security threats, will be required to access online resources at NERSC. Read More »
NERSC’s Debbie Bard Appointed Group Lead for Data Science Engagement
Bard had been acting lead for the Data Science Engagement Group since March 2018. Read More »
IceCube Research Garners Best Paper Award at IEEE Machine Learning Conference
NERSC and Berkeley Lab staff were among the co-authors on a neural network paper that won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications in Orlando, FL this month. Read More »
NERSC Staff to Showcase Analytics Expertise at AGU Fall Meeting
This year NERSC’s presence at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union is larger than ever before, thanks in part to their strides in machine- and deep-learning-based data analytics for two fundamental challenges in climate science. Read More »
NERSC Users Begin Implementing MFA for Higher Security Access to Cori
Starting this January, all NERSC users will be required to use multi-factor authentication, a security measure that provides greater protection than regular passwords against phishing and other modern threats to digital security. Read More »
UC Davis Takes Home the Gold in Berkeley Lab-Hosted Regional CyberForce Competition
In a face-off between four university teams from California hosted at Berkeley Lab and more than 60 teams representing six other national labs, the University of Central Florida emerged as the national winner of the U.S. Department of Energy's fourth annual CyberForce Competition. Read More »
Four College Teams to Converge at Berkeley Lab for DOE CyberForce Competition
Four teams from California colleges will square off at Berkeley Lab on Dec. 1 as part of the DOE’s fourth collegiate CyberForce Competition. The event aims to address the cybersecurity capability gap and increase awareness around energy critical infrastructure. Read More »
NERSC-led Team Vies for ACM Gordon Bell Prize at SC18
A NERSC-led team is among the finalists for this year’s Gordon Bell Prize to be awarded at SC18 next week. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) sponsored-prize is awarded each year to recognize outstanding achievements in high-performance computing. Read More »
Student Cluster Team Has Strength in Diversity
With 16 teams from four continents competing, this year's Student Cluster Competition at SC18 reflects the diversity embodied in one local team: Oakland’s Laney College. Read More »
NERSC Recognized by NASA for Contributions to Planck Mission
A pioneering agreement between the DOE and NASA guaranteed that NERSC would provide the HPC support essential to the Planck mission's success. And for that support, NERSC was recently recognized with a NASA Group Achievement Award. Read More »
