Scientific contact: Peter Nugent, (510) 486-6492, penugent@lbl.gov
Media contact: Paul Preuss, (510) 486-6249, paul_preuss@lbl.gov

BERKELEY, CA — A group of scientists affiliated with the SuperNova Legacy Survey (SNLS) have found startling evidence that there is more than one kind of Type Ia supernova, a class of exploding stars which until now has been regarded as [...]

Contact: Jon Bashor, jbashor@lbl.gov

When researchers at the Production Genome Facility at DOE’s Joint Genome Institute found they were generating data so fast they couldn’t find anywhere to store the files, let alone make them easily accessible for analysis, a collaboration with NERSC’s Mass Storage Group developed strategies for improving the reliability of data storage while [...]

Contact: Dan Krotz, dakrotz@lbl.gov

Now playing at a supercomputer near you: proteins in action. Scientists from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley are using one the world’s most powerful computers to simulate how protein molecules move, rotate, and fold as they carry out life’s most fundamental tasks.Although they only approximate real-life phenomena, the increasingly realistic movies are [...]

Contact: Paul Preuss, (510) 486-6249, paul_preuss@lbl.gov

BERKELEY, CA – Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have taken a giant step toward realizing the promise of laser wakefield [...]

Contact: Jon Bashor, JBashor@lbl.gov
“Red Storm” is the name of a massively-parallel-processing supercomputer that Cray Inc. and the Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories are developing for the Advanced [...]

Media Contact: Jon Bashor, (510) 486-5849, JBashor@lbl.gov
BERKELEY, CA —  The National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, put its 10 teraflops-per-second (10 trillion calculations [...]

Contact: Jon Bashor, 510-486-5849, JBashor@lbl.gov
BERKELEY, CA —  - The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Center has signed a contract with IBM to double the size of NERSC’s 3,328-processor RS/6000 [...]

Jon Bashor, (510) 486-5849, jbashor@lbl.gov
BERKELEY, CA —  Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have just completed a 1,000-year run of a powerful new climate system model on a supercomputer at the U.S. Department [...]

Contact: Paul Preuss, paul_preuss@lbl.gov

“Cell biologists love a good microscope image,” according to Mary Helen Barcellos-Hoff of Berkeley Lab’s Life Sciences Division, “but a radiation biologist is likely to say, ‘Well [...]

Contact: Paul Preuss, paul_preuss@lbl.gov;
Jon Bashor, jbashor@lbl.gov
The startling announcement in 1998 that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate — followed not long after by evidence that a mysterious “dark energy” filling the universe is responsible [...]