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September 1, 2008
On Wednesday, August 27, a delegation from the French Strategic Council for High Performance Computing visited with Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences managers and staff to discuss research in scientific data management, algorithm development, computer architectures, collaborations with the University of California Berkeley, and other issues ranging from staffing to budgeting.
The council was established by the French Ministry of Research to advise the government on investments and research programs in supercomputing. Members of the delegation included Strategic Council Chair Olivier Pironneau, a professor at the University of Paris, and council members Michel Kern and Laura Grigori (formerly a researcher in LBNL’s Scientific Computing Group).
This summer, the delegates also visited several American universities to learn about cutting-edge projects in software development for high performance computing.
About NERSC and Berkeley Lab
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility that serves as the primary high performance computing center for scientific research sponsored by the Office of Science. Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, NERSC serves almost 10,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in climate, fusion energy, materials science, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines. Berkeley Lab is a DOE national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy. »Learn more about computing sciences at Berkeley Lab.
