March 10, 2003
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 [...]
November 4, 2002
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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 [...]
September 4, 2002
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 [...]
July 16, 2002
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“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 [...]
MORE>April 22, 2002
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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 [...]
March 22, 2002
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John Buscemi, IBM jbuscemi@us.ibm.com 914-766-4495 or
Jon Bashor, NERSC JBashor@lbl.gov 510-486-5849
BERKELEY, CA — ARMONK, NY and BERKELEY, CA, March 22, 2002 — IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) today [...]
February 15, 2002
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Inna Dubchak of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), located at Berkeley Lab, has specialized in computer programs to make biological databases more useful. When her [...]
October 8, 2001
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BERKELEY, CA — Scientists at universities and national laboratories across the country are now tapping into the power of the world’s largest supercomputer dedicated to unclassified research [...]
June 21, 2001
John Hules, jahules@lbl.gov
BERKELEY, CA — In the latest ranking of the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers, a 2,528-processor IBM RS/6000 SP system at the U. S. Department of Energy’s [...]
April 2, 2001
Paul Preuss, paul_preuss@lbl.gov
BERKELEY, CA — An exploding star dubbed SN 1997ff, caught once on purpose and twice by accident by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, is the oldest and most distant Type Ia supernova ever seen, according to [...]
