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Quantum Evolution

April 13, 2023

A leading expert in quantum computing, Bert de Jong discusses why quantum computing matters, where it is today, and the potential of this emerging technology to change science. Read More »

Berkeley Lab Researchers Awarded ISQED’23 Best Paper

April 4, 2023

The International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED’23) recognized researchers in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Computer Architecture Group with a Best Paper Award for “An Area Efficient Superconducting Unary CNN Accelerator.” Read More »

New Math Methods and Perlmutter HPC Combine to Deliver Record-Breaking ML Algorithm

March 13, 2023

Using the Perlmutter supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have devised a new mathematical method for analyzing extremely large datasets – and, in the process, demonstrated proof of principle on a record-breaking dataset of more than five million points. Read More »

Improving Training for Scientific Machine Learning

March 3, 2023

In the world of scientific machine learning (SciML), scientists are beginning to embrace the use of neural networks as a way to accelerate simulations. At the heart of deep learning algorithms, neural networks provide a mechanism to encode complex dependency structures, using many connected node layers to transform data into learned features to be used for a wide range of scientific tasks. Read More »

The Most Advanced Bay Area Earthquake Simulations Will be Publicly Available

February 10, 2023

A collaboration involving scientists and computing resources from Berkeley Lab and the simulation software EQSIM is releasing the most accurate and detailed earthquake simulations to date, which will initially capture earthquake motions across the San Francisco Bay Area and later expand to other regions. Read More »

WarpX Code Shines at the Exascale Level

February 2, 2023

The WarpX project has spent the last six years creating a novel, highly parallel, and highly optimized single-source simulation code for modeling plasma-based particle colliders on cutting-edge exascale supercomputers, with broad importance for other accelerators and related problems. Read More »

Berkeley Lab Scientists Create Machine Learning Pipeline for Interpreting Large Tomography Datasets

January 25, 2023

A group of Berkeley Lab scientists has developed and tested several machine learning techniques organized in a learning pipeline to improve the interpretation of increasingly large cryo-ET datasets. Read More »

Berkeley Lab’s Ushizima Honored with PMWC Pioneer Award

January 25, 2023

Berkeley Lab’s Daniela Ushizima was recognized with PMWC Pioneer Award for constructing “a new and reliable technique for diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease and measuring the efficacy of experimental treatments.” Read More »

The SciData Division’s Jean Luca Bez Receives BSSw Honorable Mention

January 9, 2023

Jean Luca Bez, a postdoctoral scholar in the Scientific Data Management Research (SDMR) group was recognized with an Honorable Mention by the Better Scientific Software (BSSw) Fellowship Program. Read More »

Bert de Jong Named 2023 Oppenheimer Fellow

December 13, 2022

Bert de Jong has been selected as a 2023 fellow of the Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program (OSELP). Read More »

Berkeley Lab’s Networking Middleware GASNet Turns 20

December 5, 2022

For 20 years, Berkeley Lab’s GASNet has been fueling developers’ ability to tap the power of massively parallel supercomputers more effectively. The middleware was recently upgraded to support exascale scientific applications. Read More »

HUNTRESS: A Step Forward for Computational Oncology Data Analysis

November 30, 2022

The latest developments in computational oncology are giving medical researchers a glimpse into a future where they’ll be able to understand tumor progression via supercomputers and advanced mathematical algorithms. Read More »

SCGSR Fellow Brings Astrophysics Data Skills to Berkeley Lab and Black Holes

November 28, 2022

Graduate student Peter Craig spent much of 2022 working with researchers in the Berkeley Lab Applied Mathematics and Computational Research division scouring through a new, massive astrophysics dataset looking for previously unidentified binary black holes. Read More »

Berkeley Lab-Led WarpX Project Key to 2022 Gordon Bell Prize

November 18, 2022

A Berkeley Lab research team and international collaborators were awarded the prestigious ACM Gordon Bell Prize on November 17 during SC22. Read More »

Stefan Wild to Lead Berkeley Lab’s Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division

November 2, 2022

Stefan Wild has been selected to serve as the next director for Berkeley Lab's Applied Mathematics and Computational Research (AMCR) Division in the Computing Sciences Area (CSA). Read More »

Berkeley Lab Scientists Win IEEE LDAV Best Paper Award

November 1, 2022

Berkeley Lab scientists were honored with a Best Paper Award by the IEEE Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) symposium. Their paper, Distributed Hierarchical Contour Trees, discusses their development of a powerful tool for data analysis. Read More »

Meet Helen Xu, 2022 Hopper Fellow

October 26, 2022

Helen Xu begins her role as Berkeley Lab’s new Grace Hopper Fellow. Established in 2015, this prestigious fellowship aims to develop young computer and computational scientists to make outstanding contributions to HPC applications. Read More »

Five CS Staff Honored With Berkeley Lab Director Achievement Awards

October 20, 2022

Five Computing Sciences Area employees will accept the Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement at a ceremony on November 10. The CS Area award recipients are David Brown, Marcus Noack, Talita Perciano, Silvia Crivelli, and Michael Wehner. Read More »

Exabiome Brings Metagenomics Into the Exascale Era

October 10, 2022

Over the past seven years, the Berkeley Lab-led Exabiome project developed novel software tools that allow researchers to harness the power of cutting-edge high performance computers (and now exascale supercomputers) to solve previously infeasible problems in metagenomics. Read More »

GraphBLAST Targets GPU Graph Analytics Performance Issues

October 6, 2022

GraphBLAST, a new graph framework developed by researchers at Berkeley Lab and UC Davis, enhances the performance of the popular GraphBLAS collection of graph algorithm building blocks by overcoming design and performance challenges specific to graphical processing units (GPUs). Read More »

Berkeley Lab Researchers Honored with Best Paper Award at QCE22

September 28, 2022

For the third year running, Berkeley Lab researchers snagged the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE22) Best Paper award. Read More »

Scientific Data Division Summer Students Tackle Data Privacy

September 15, 2022

Two students, Ammar Haydari and Nikhil Ravi, worked with Scientific Data Division's Sean Peisert on mobility data and electrical grid data privacy projects. Read More »

Neurodata Without Borders Team Co-Hosts Upcoming Data Showcase and Hackathon

September 12, 2022

Following up on their late June user meeting, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) team is co-hosting several events geared toward training participants to generate new insights from existing open neurophysiology data through secondary analysis. Read More »

Exascale Application Project Targets Carbon Capture and Storage

August 15, 2022

Carbon capture and storage technologies are promising approaches for reducing CO2 emissions, but one of the biggest challenges in deploying them is the scale-up from laboratory design to industrial scale. The MFIX-Exa software subproject of the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project is helping achieve that scaling using the AMReX software framework developed at Berkeley Lab. Read More »

Optimizing SWAP Networks for Quantum Computing

August 4, 2022

Researchers at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Berkeley Lab, in partnership with the startup Super.tech (acquired by ColdQuanta), demonstrated how a smart compiler specifically tailored for superconducting hardware can optimize circuits and networks and execute less error-prone quantum algorithms such as Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA). Read More »