October 14, 2009
Scientists will examine cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient computing paradigm to accelerate discoveries in biology, climate change and physics. A program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the Department of Energy will examine cloud computing as a way to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines.
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Tags: computing
Posted in Press Releases
August 10, 2009
In order to facilitate data-intensive research, ESnet, the Department of Energy’s high-performance networking facility managed by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is receiving $62 million to develop what will be the world’s fastest computer network, designed specifically to support science.
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Tags: computing, ESnet
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July 20, 2009
Berkeley Lab won four of R&D Magazine’s R&D 100 Awards for 2009, which recognize the 100 most significant proven technological advances of the year. This year’s winners offer the promise of cost-competitive solar cells, more computer memory at less cost, an unmatched look at atomic scale matter in 3-D, and a more powerful way to find hidden energy sources.
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Tags: awards, computing, energy, materials sciences
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June 15, 2009
Finding rare and fleeting cosmic events not only requires the right kind of telescope and camera, it depends on high-performance computing that can pinpoint objects of interest among thousands of sky images while there’s still time for follow-up observations. Caltech and DOE’s NERSC join forces in just such a search, the Palomar Transient Factory.
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Tags: astronomy, computing, cosmology, NERSC, supernova
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June 3, 2009
Berkeley Lab researchers have created a unique new memory storage medium that can pack thousands of times more data into one square inch of space than conventional chips and preserve this data for more than a billion years!
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Tags: computing, nanoscience, nanotechnology
Posted in Feature Stories
May 21, 2009
Berkeley Lab researchers have successfully demonstrated that electric fields can be used as ON/OFF switches in doped multiferroic films, a development that holds promise for future magnetic data storage and spintronic devices.
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Tags: computing, electronics, spintronics
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May 14, 2009
Berkeley Lab’s interest in the Planck mission to map the cosmic microwave background goes back to a proposal that evolved into the present design – and extends into the future as NERSC’s powerful computers stand by to analyze the coming flood of data.
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Tags: astronomy, computing, cosmology, NERSC, physics
Posted in Feature Stories
May 1, 2009
Global climate change is hotly debated, to say the least. But two experts warn that using short-term trends that show little temperature change (or even slight cooling) to refute global warming is misleading. The long-term pattern clearly shows human activities are causing the earth’s climate to heat up.
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Tags: climate change, computing
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April 16, 2009
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), a high-speed network linking tens of thousands of researchers around the nation, was honored on April 14, 2009 with an Excellence.Gov award for its achievements in leveraging technology.
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Tags: computing, ESnet
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February 4, 2009
Guarding water supplies, protecting endangered species and curbing greenhouse gases is going high-tech. Environmental scientists are turning to innovative cyber-infrastructures and data-mining tools developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab, Microsoft Research, and the University of California, Berkeley.
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Tags: computing
Posted in Feature Stories