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January 14, 2011
Katiie Antypas, group leader for user services, gave the group a tour of the NERSC machine room.
Eleven members of the Contra Costa College Parallel Computing Club paid a visit to NERSC at the Berkeley Lab's Oakland Science Facility on January 14. The students, along with instructor Tom Murphy, were welcomed from NERSC's User Services Group Lead, Katie Antypas, gave an introduction to parallel computing and NERSC, as well as a tour of the facility's computer room. The visit grew out of a conversation at the annual Supercomputing held last November in New Orleans.
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.
