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NERSC Hosts First ‘Big Data Summit’
Some 75 researchers and data scientists attended the Big Data Summit 2018, hosted by NERSC on Wednesday, July 18. Read More »
Berkeley Lab CS Staff Play Integral Role in ISC18
Numerous Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences staff will be participating in the ISC18 conference June 24-28 in Frankfurt, Germany. Read More »
Physicists and Machine Learning Experts Team Up to Tackle the TrackML Challenge
Machine learning experts, computer scientists and physicists have partnered with Kaggle on the TrackML Particle Tracking Challenge, a competition designed to inspire the development of an algorithm that can quickly reconstruct particle tracks from 3D coordinates left in silicon particle detectors following millions of particle collisions. Read More »
Computing Sciences Summer Student Program Draws 90-plus Participants
Dozens of college students from around the world will spend the next two months at Berkeley Lab as part of the Computing Sciences Summer Student Program. Read More »
New Look Coming to NERSC Login Page
NERSC rolls out a redesigned login page on June 11. Read More »
NERSC's Debbie Bard Delivers Google I/O Talk on Machine Learning in Science
NERSC’s Debbie Bard gave a presentation May 10 during Google I/O, Google’s annual developer’s conference, where she talked about how machine learning and deep learning are being used in cosmology to explore the large-scale structure of the universe. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Staff Get Improved Runtime Features Added to OpenMP Standard
Two Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences staff members were instrumental in getting critical new runtime features added to the OpenMP Technical Report (TR) 6 standard document, the precursor document for the official OpenMP 5.0 release, slated for release at SC18. Read More »
First Data Study Trip a Success
Berkeley Lab hosted students from the IT Academy at El Cerrito High School on the first-of-its-kind Big Data Study Trip. Read More »
HPC4Mfg Program Seeking New Proposals
The fifth HPC4Mfg program solicitation round, which opened February 1, is seeking concept papers that spur the use of national lab supercomputing resources and expertise to advance innovation in clean energy technology. A total of up to $3 million is available to support a portfolio of projects with national impact on energy efficiency. Read More »
Berkeley Lab-led Collaborations Honored for HPC Innovation Excellence
Two Berkeley Lab-led projects—Celeste and Galactos—were honored with Hyperion Research’s 2017 HPC Innovation Excellence Award for "the outstanding application of HPC for business and scientific achievements." Read More »
Berkeley Lab Staff to Participate in Major Machine Learning Conference
Berkeley Lab’s growing involvement in deep learning research and development will be evident next week when several staff members present papers and posters for the first time at the 2017 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS). Read More »
New 'Storage 2020' Report Outlines Vision for Future HPC Storage
A new report, “NERSC Storage 2020,” provides a detailed roadmap and NERSC’s storage vision to address the overwhelming data storage challenges the science community is expected to face over the next decade and beyond. Read More »
2017 Techwomen Foster Collaborations at Berkeley Lab and Around the Globe
Berkeley Lab's Daniela Ushizima, Romy Chakraborty and Jackie Scoggins are collaborating with two Techwomen—Patu Ndango from Cameroon and Rim Abid from Tunisia—on quality control methods for constrained environments. Read More »
NERSC Staff Help Support Diversity in Computing at 2017 Tapia Conference
A number of NERSC staff participated in the 2017 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, held September 20-23 in Atlanta, GA. Read More »
2017 Nobel Prize Recipient a Former NERSC PI
Joachim Frank, a recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, developed the computational methods central to 3D image reconstruction in cryo-electron microscopy. Read More »
NERSC Hosts 2017 Slurm User Group Meeting
NERSC hosted the 2017 Slurm User Group meeting September 24-26 at Berkeley Lab—the largest SLUG meeting to date, with 85 attendees from the U.S., Europe and Australia. Read More »
NERSC Announces 2017 HPC Achievement Awards
NERSC announced the recipients of the 2017 High Performance Computing Achievement Awards September 21 during the annual NERSC Users Group meeting at Berkeley Lab. Read More »
Intel, NERSC and University Partners Launch New Big Data Center
A collaboration between the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, Intel and five Intel Parallel Computing Centers has resulted in a new Big Data Center that will work both on code modernization and tackle real science challenges. Read More »
NERSC Data Day, Annual User Group Meeting Set for Sept. 19-21
NERSC’s Data Day and the 2017 NERSC User Group annual meeting are being combined this year, giving NERSC users the opportunity to attend both in one venue. Read More »
DOE User Facilities Join Forces to Tackle Biology’s Big Data
Six proposals have been selected to participate in a new partnership between NERSC and JGI, called the FICUS initiative. Researchers will leverage the expertise and capabilities available at the two facilities to explore the wealth of genomic and metagenomic data generated worldwide to accelerate discoveries. Read More »
NERSC Student Cluster Competition Team Ready for ISC17
Five former NERSC interns and one current student assistant are joining forces to participate in the Student Cluster Competition at ISC17, June 18-22 in Frankfurt, Germany. Read More »
NERSC, CRD Staff Make Big Contributions to Cray Users Group Meeting
NERSC, Cori and many aspects of using Cori - including Knights Landing processors, NESAP, performance, software, Burst Buffer, Shifter, SLURM, system management and system monitoring - were well represented at the 2017 Cray Users Group meeting. Read More »
Shyh Wang Hall Achieves LEED Gold Certification
Berkeley Lab’s Shyh Wang Hall—home to the Computing Sciences organization and NERSC's supercomputing resources—earned a Gold LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. Read More »
NERSC’s First 'NESAP for Data' Teams Hit the Ground Running
Following a call for proposals issued last October, NERSC has selected 6 science application teams to participate in the NERSC Exascale Science Applications Program for Data (NESAP for Data) program. Read More »
Gerber Tapped to Oversee NERSC’s High Performance Computing Department
Richard Gerber, who has been at NERSC for 20 years, has been named head of the center’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Department. Read More »
Former NERSC Intern Honored by the National Center for Women & IT
Elizabeth Wang, a summer intern at NERSC in 2015 and a member of NERSC’s first student cluster competition team at ISC 2016, has been selected as a 2017 National Honorable Mention recipient of the National Center for Women in IT Award for Aspirations in Computing. Read More »
January 7 Memorial for William Harris, Former NERSC Operations Lead
A memorial service will be held at noon Saturday, January 7, for William Harris, former head of NERSC’s Computer Operations and Network Support Group. Read More »
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 »
Berkeley Lab Opens State-of-the-Art Facility for Computational Science
Shyh Wang Hall, a new center for advancing computational science and networking at research institutions and universities across the country, opened November 12 at Berkeley Lab. Read More »
National Labs Collaborate to Shape Development of Next-Generation Supercomputers
Three of the Department of Energy's leading national laboratories are working together to solve some of the world's most challenging problems by ensuring that the nation's scientific community has access to leading edge computing systems to carry out their research. Read More »
ESnet, NERSC Blaze 400G Production Network Path
The Department of Energy’s ESnet and NERSC have built a 400 gigabit-per-second super-channel, the first-ever 400G production link to be deployed by a national research and education network. Read More »
Berkeley Lab’s New Computing Sciences Facility Features First-of-Its-Kind Seismic Floor
When the new Wang Hall building at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is officially unveiled November 12, one of its most unique features will not be on display. In fact, it is tucked away beneath the floor of the CRT’s 20,000 square foot machine room, keeping the facility’s supercomputers and servers safe from potential damage during an earthquake. Read More »
Cray, AMPLab, NERSC Collaboration Targets Spark Performance on HPC Platforms
As data-centric workloads become increasingly common in scientific and industrial applications, a pressing concern is how to design large-scale data analytics stacks that simplify analysis of the resulting data. A new collaboration between Cray, researchers at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab and Berkeley Lab’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is working to address this issue. The need to build and study increasingly detailed models of physical phenomena has benefited from… Read More »
HPSS Disk Cache Upgrade Caters to Capacity
NERSC users today are benefitting from a business decision made three years ago by the center’s Storage Systems Group as they were looking to upgrade the High-Performance Storage System disk cache: rather than focus primarily on bandwidth challenges, why not improve capacity as well? Read More »
Hick Shifts Gears in NERSC’s Storage Systems Group, Takes on New Role
Jason Hick, who has been Group Lead of the Storage Systems Group (SSG) at NERSC since first coming to the center in 2006, has decided to return to his roots as a senior storage engineer. Read More »
NERSC Hosts 150 HPC Experts as they Prepare for Intel’s Xeon Phi Processor
About 150 members of the high performance computing community spent four days preparing for the next generation of processor architectures at the 2015 IXPUG (Intel Xeon Phi Users Group) meeting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read More »
Early Users to Test New Burst Buffer on Cori
NERSC has selected a number of HPC research projects to participate in the center’s new Burst Buffer Early User Program, where they will be able to test and run their codes using the new Burst Buffer feature on the center’s newest supercomputer, Cori. Read More »
New DOE Office of Science support for CAMERA to develop computational mathematics for experimental facilities research
The Department of Energy has announced approval of a joint ASCR-BES-supported award of $10.5 million over three years to expand the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA). Read More »
Berkeley Lab Climate Software Honored for Pattern Recognition Advances
TECA, the Toolkit for Extreme Climate Analysis developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to help climate researchers detect extreme weather events in large datasets, has been recognized for its achievements in solving large scale pattern recognition problems. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Joins DOE’s New HPC4Manufacturing Program
Berkeley Lab is collaborating with Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge national laboratories to lead a new Department of Energy program designed to fund and foster public-private R&D projects that enhance U.S. competitiveness in clean energy manufacturing. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Highlights HPC at Advanced Manufacturing Event
Peter Nugent, Division Deputy for Scientific Engagement in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division, and David Skinner, who leads NERSC’s Strategic Partnerships effort, are participating this week in the third annual 2015 American Energy & Manufacturing Competitiveness Summit, where they will be discussing the increasing role of high performance computing in U.S. manufacturing. The two-day summit is being hosted September 15-16, 2015 in Washington, DC by the Council on… Read More »
NERSC Staff Honored with Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement
Five employees in the Computing Sciences organization staff, including NERSC's Brent Draney and Lynn Rippe, are recipients of this year’s Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement. The honorees will be recognized at a future Lab awards ceremony and reception. Read More »
NERSC Accelerates Scientific Analysis with SciDB
Tackling extreme data challenges will require a system that is easy enough for any scientist to use, that can effectively harness the power of ever more powerful supercomputers, and that is unified and extendable. This is where NERSC’s implementation of SciDB comes in. Read More »
‘Shifter’ Makes Container-based HPC a Breeze
To facilitate the use of container-based computing in HPC, NERSC is enabling Docker-like container technology on its systems through its new, customized - and soon to be open source - software tool, Shifter. Read More »
Computing Sciences Staff Help East Bay High Schoolers Upgrade their Summer
Thirty-eight students from 10 East Bay high schools registered for Laney College's eight-week "Upgrade: Computer Science Program." Berkeley Lab and NERSC's participation grew out of a career pathways workshop where Jon Bashor of Computing Sciences met Laney College’s Johnnie Williams, who developed and led the program. Read More »
First NESAP Post-doc Takes on BoxLib
The first of eight post-doctoral researchers participating in the NERSC Exascale Science Applications Program (NESAP) joined the NESAP team May 18. Read More »
David Turner to Retire from NERSC User Services Group
Long-time User Services Group consultant David Turner is hanging up his headset after 17 years at NERSC. Read More »
Francesca Verdier to Leave NERSC after 19 Years in User Services, Allocations
After 19 years at NERSC and many more than that in HPC, Francesca Verdier--currently NERSC’s allocations manager--will retire in June 2015. Read More »
NERSC, Cray Move Forward With Next-Generation Scientific Computing
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center and Cray Inc. announced today that they have finalized a new contract for a Cray XC40 supercomputer that will be the first NERSC system installed in the newly built Computational Research and Theory facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read More »
MyNERSC Gives Users Easier Access to Data, Jobs, Wait Times
MyNERSC, a web-based portal that provides NERSC users with real-time information on their jobs, disk usage, allocations and queue wait times, is garnering rave reviews following recent upgrades that have broadened its functionality and streamlined its ease of use. Read More »
Former NERSC Consultant Mentors Math, Computer Science Students
Frank Hale, a former consultant in NERSC’s User Services Group (USG) who currently tutors math at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, CA, recently brought a group of computer science enthusiasts from the college to NERSC for a tour. Read More »
NERSC Users Learn Code Optimization Tips and Tricks at 1st Hackathon
A one-day "Hack-A-Thon" held February 25 at NERSC’s Oakland Scientific Facility during the annual NERSC Users Group (NUG) meeting has been deemed a rousing success by organizers and attendees alike. Read More »
NERSC Honors Third Annual HPC Achievement Award Winners
NERSC announced the winners of its third annual High Performance Computing Achievement Awards February 24, 2015, during the annual NERSC User Group meeting at Berkeley Lab. Read More »
NERSC Implements Organizational Changes to Better Address Evolving Data Environment
NERSC is making several organizational changes to help the center’s 6,000 users more productively manage their data-intensive research. The changes took effect Monday, Feb. 23. Read More »
Local High School Students Tour NERSC
In February, two groups of students from East Bay high schools descended on the Oakland Scientific Facility to learn more about supercomputing and networking. Read More »
NERSC Seeks Industry Partners for Collaborative Research
NERSC has launched a private sector partnership program to make its computing capabilities available to industry partners working in key technology areas that support the DOE mission. Read More »
NERSC Wins HPCWire Editors' Choice Award
NERSC was awarded HPCWire’s 2014 Editors’ Choice Award for Best HPC Collaboration Between Government & Industry for its partnership with Intel and Cray in preparation for Cori, the Cray XC supercomputer slated to be deployed at NERSC in 2016. Read More »
SC14 DOE Booth Presentations by NERSC, Berkeley Lab Staff
At the DOE booth (#1939) during the SC14 conference this week, NERSC and Berkeley Lab staff will give featured talks, present demonstrations and host roundtable discussions. Read More »
NERSC Scientists Contribute to SC14 Technical Program
Here's a look at the various talks, presentations, tutorials and demos that NERSC and other Berkeley Lab staff will be participating in during SC14. Read More »
A Comprehensive Look at High Performance Parallel I/O
In this era of “big data,” high performance parallel I/O is extremely important. Yet, the last book to summarize best practices in this area was written more than 10 years ago. To fill the void, Berkeley Lab's Prabhat and HDF Group's Quincey Koziol brought together leading practitioners, researchers, software architects, developers and scientists to contribute their insights for a new book called “High Performance Parallel I/O.” Read More »
Cybersecurity Expert Jim Mellander Retiring from NERSC
Jim Mellander, senior cyber security engineer at NERSC, is retiring November 1. He’s been with the center since 2009 and affiliated with Berkeley Lab for nearly 15 years. Read More »
NERSC Hosts Application Readiness and Portability Meeting with OLCF and ALCF
Over 30 staff members from NERSC, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and Argonne Leadership Computing Facility met at Berkeley Lab’s Oakland Scientific Facility September 24-25 to coordinate strategies for application readiness in preparation for the next generation of supercomputers. Read More »
John Shalf Gives Talk at San Francisco High Performance Computing Meetup
In his role as NERSC’s chief technology officer, John Shalf gave a talk on “Converging Interconnect Requirements for HPC and Warehouse Scale Computing at San Francisco High Performance Computing Meetup. Read More »
Prabhat Steps In as DAS Group Lead
Prabhat has been named Group Lead of the Data and Analytics Services (DAS) Group at NERSC. Read More »
Kjiersten Fagnan Appointed NERSC/JGI Engagement Lead
Kjiersten Fagnan has been named the NERSC/JGI Engagement Lead for Joint Genome Institute computational and data analysis efforts carried out at NERSC. Read More »
NERSC Selects 20 NESAP Code Teams
NERSC has accepted 20 projects into the NERSC Exascale Scientific Applications Program, a new collaborative effort that partners NERSC, Intel and Cray resources with code teams across the U.S. to prepare for Cori, the center’s next-generation supercomputer. Read More »
NERSC Launches Next-Generation Code Optimization Effort
The new NERSC Exascale Science Applications Program (NESAP) is a robust application readiness effort launched to support NERSC’s next-generation supercomputer, Cori Read More »
Ten Projects Awarded NERSC Allocations under DOE’s ALCC Program
Under the Department of Energy’s ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge program, 10 research teams at national laboratories and universities have been awarded 382.5 million hours of computing time at the NERSC. Read More »
Berkeley Lab to Collaborate with Intel in Updating Scientific Applications for Manycore Architectures
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been named an Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC), a collaboration with Intel aimed at adapting existing scientific applications to run on future supercomputers built with manycore processors. Such supercomputers will have millions of processor cores, but today’s applications aren’t designed to take advantage of this architecture. Read More »
Peter Nugent Named Deputy for Scientific Engagement
eter Nugent has been appointed Deputy for Scientific Engagement in Berkeley Lab’s CRD. In his new role, Nugent will work with CRD and Computing Sciences leadership to develop and implement a strategy for engaging with other Berkeley Lab scientific divisions in need of computational solutions for data-intensive science projects. Read More »
Two Peas in a Pod: How NERSC & ESnet Grew Up Together
Two of the Department of Energy’s most scientifically productive user facilities share a 'super' history. Read More »
NERSC, Cray, Intel to Collaborate on Next-Generation Supercomputer
Scheduled for delivery in mid-2016, the new Cray XC system will deliver 10x the sustained computing capability of NERSC’s Hopper system, further enhancing scientific discovery at the Department of Energy's Office of Science. Read More »
Petascale Post-Doc Project a Supercomputing Success Story
The first post-doctoral research project centered at NERSC is being credited with helping its participants advance their careers and boosting the state-of-the-art in high performance scientific computing software applications. Read More »
NERSC Gateways Pave Way for ‘Team Science’
Computational scientists at NERSC work with researchers around the globe to develop online tools that are changing the way they compute and collaborate Read More »
20th Century Reanalysis Project Featured in HPCWire Podcast
Long-time NERSC user Dr. Gil Compo and the 20th Century Reanalysis project were featured March 10 in an HPCWire podcast. Read More »
NERSC, LBL Researchers Share Materials Science Advances at APS
NERSC and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) were well represented at the American Physical Society (APS) March meeting, March 3-7 in Denver, CO. Read More »
NCSA's Bill Kramer Assesses NERSC's HPC Legacy
At the Feb. 4-5 NERSC User Group meeting marking the center’s 40th anniversary, invited speaker Bill Kramer used the occasion to assess NERSC’s legacy to the high performance computing (HPC) community. Kramer, who is the director and principle investigator of the Blue Waters Project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Illinois, was one of the first NERSC employees hired by LBNL when the center moved to Berkeley Lab. He spent 12 years as NERSC’s general manager. Read More »
NERSC Announces Second Annual HPC Achievement Awards
NERSC announced the winners of its second annual High Performance Computing (HPC) Achievement Awards on Feb. 5, 2014, during the annual NERSC User Group meeting at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Read More »
Memorial Gathering Pending for NERSC’s Michael Welcome
A celebration of life is pending for Michael Welcome, a member of NERSC’s Mass Storage Group, who collapsed at work on Thursday, Jan. 30, and subsequently died. Welcome spent his entire career working for computing organizations at Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories. He was 56. Read More »
Edison Electrifies Scientific Computing
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center recently accepted “Edison,” a new flagship supercomputer designed for scientific productivity. Named in honor of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison, the Cray XC30 will be dedicated in a ceremony held at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) on Feb. 5, and scientists are already reporting results. Read More »
