The rush toward multicore processors in supercomputing and even in consumer electronics comes at the expense of the best available software. Samuel Williams and his colleagues in the Computational Research Division and NERSC used a powerful code that models magnetohydrodynamic turbulence to check out five multicores and found just one, the Cell Blade, that outperformed them all.

Contact: Jon Bashor JBashor@lbl.gov, 510-486-5849

BERKELEY, Calif. — The U.S. Department of Energy announced today that it is allocating about 10.4 million CPU hours on supercomputers at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as part of a program to accelerate scientific discoveries in multiple disciplines, including climate, [...]

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BERKELEY, CA and SEATTLE, WA – The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Cray Inc. today announced the successful completion of the acceptance test of one of the world’s largest supercomputers. Installed at the DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), the [...]

Media contact: Jon Bashor, jbashor@lbl.gov, 510-486-5849

BERKELEY, CA — Kathy Yelick, a professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley and an internationally recognized expert in developing methods to advance the use of supercomputers, has been named director of the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).

Katherine Yelick, head of [...]

Scientific contact: Peter Nugent, (510) 486-6492, penugent@lbl.gov
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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“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 [...]