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Cori Supercomputer Now Fully Installed at Berkeley Lab
Cori, the Cray XC40 system that is the latest addition to the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center’s (NERSC) supercomputing repertoire, is now fully installed and ready to support scientific simulations and data-intensive workflows. Read More »
NERSC's 'Shifter' Scales up to More Than 9,000 Cori KNL Processors
Shifter—the scalable software toolkit that leverages container-based computing to help supercomputer users run a wider range of software more easily and securely—is now better than ever. Read More »
Jupyter Notebooks Will Open up New Possibilities on NERSC’s Cori Supercomputer
NERSC is using Jupyter notebooks to help users more easily access computing resources and will expand these capabilities when the fully deployed Cori supercomputer goes into production this fall. Read More »
NERSC Partners with Cray, ESnet to Bring Software Defined Networking to Cori
NERSC is exploring new ways to more efficiently move data in and out of Cori, its newest supercomputer, including software-defined networking. Read More »
NERSC, CRD Staff Honored with Berkeley Lab Director's Achievement Awards
Several staff in Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences organization are recipients of this year’s Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement. Read More »
NERSC Issues ‘NESAP for Data’ Call for Proposals
NERSC is now accepting applications for participation in the new NESAP for Data program, an extension of the popular NERSC Exascale Science Applications Program (NESAP). Read More »
Unique Collaboration Enhances Optical Chip Design Process
A unique collaboration between computer scientists and mathematicians from Berkeley Lab’s Computing Sciences group and Ciena has helped dramatically improve design cycle times for the major U.S. telecommunications equipment provider's high-speed optical networking components. Read More »
NERSC Helps Scientists Study Plants’ Plumbing
Science teams working to resolve open questions about how plants transport water performed an intensive round of experiments that yielded a terabyte of 3D imaging data to be stored and analyzed at NERSC. Read More »
Cory Snavely Named Group Lead for Infrastructure Services
Cory Snavely, a senior computer systems engineer who joined NERSC in March 2015, has been named group lead for the Infrastructure Services Group. Read More »
Berkeley Lab to Partner with Five U.S. Manufacturers via HPC4Mfg Program
The U.S. Department of Energy’s High Performance Computing for Manufacturing (HPC4Mfg) Program has announced $3.8 million in funding for 13 new industry projects in the second round of the HPC4Mfg program, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been selected to partner with five of the new projects. Read More »
NERSC’s First ‘Data Day’ Showcases HPC Tools for Data-Intensive Science
Approximately 90 HPC enthusiasts attended NERSC’s first-ever “Data Day,” a two-day event designed to bring together researchers who use, or are interested in using, NERSC systems for data-intensive work. Read More »
Latest NERSC/Intel/Cray ‘Dungeon Session’ Yields Impressive Code Speedups
Six application development teams participating in NESAP, NERSC’s next-generation code optimization effort, gathered at Intel in early August for a marathon “dungeon” session designed to help tweak their codes for the next-generation Intel Xeon Phi Knight’s Landing manycore architecture at the heart of NERSC’s new Cori supercomputer. Read More »
Energy Department to Invest $16 Million in Computer Design of Materials
The U.S. Department of Energy will invest $16 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use of supercomputers, including NERSC's new 30-petaflop/s Cori system. Read More »
NERSC Staff, Users Readying for Delivery of Cori Phase 2 Knights Landing-based System in July
For the past year, staff at NERSC have been preparing users of 20 leading science applications for the arrival of the second phase of its newest supercomputer, Cori. Cori consists of more than 9,300 nodes containing Intel’s Xeon Phi Knights Landing processor, which was officially unveiled today, June 20, at the International Supercomputer Conference in Germany. Read More »
NERSC Fields Its First Student Cluster Competition Team
Five former NERSC interns and one current intern have joined forces to participate in the Student Cluster Competition at ISC16, marking the first time that NERSC has fielded a student cluster competition team Read More »
NERSC Hosts 50 Enthusiastic Computer Science Students from Dougherty Valley High
A group of 50 enthusiastic computer science students from Dougherty Valley High School in San Ramon, CA visited NERSC May 26. Read More »
NERSC’s Brian Friesen Helps Cray Surprise an Inquisitive High School Student
About a month ago, Hugo Villanueva of John F. Kennedy Middle College High School in Southern California was trying to calculate the probability of surviving a zombie apocalypse, but his handheld calculator couldn’t handle the problem. So he wrote a letter to Cray Inc. asking for help. Read More »
CUG Honors NERSC Burst Buffer Early User Program with ‘Best Paper’
A new paper outlining NERSC's Burst Buffer Early User Program and the center’s pioneering efforts in recent months to test drive the technology using real science applications on Cori Phase 1 has won the Best Paper award at this year’s Cray User Group meeting. Read More »
Hazen Named Storage Systems Group Lead
Damian Hazen, who has been with NERSC since 2001, has been named group lead for the Storage Systems Group. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Hosts Fourth X-Stack PI Meeting
Berkeley Lab hosted the fourth annual X-Stack PI meeting April 6 and 7, where X-Stack researchers, the facilities teams, applications scientists and developers from national laboratories, universities and industry met to share the latest developments in X-Stack application codes. Read More »
NERSC Announces 4th Annual HPC Achievement Award Winners
NERSC announced the winners of the 2016 High Performance Computing Achievement Awards during the annual NERSC Users Group meeting at Berkeley Lab. Read More »
