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Spectacular ultraviolet flash may finally explain how white dwarfs explode
For just the second time ever, astrophysicists have spotted a spectacular flash of ultraviolet (UV) light in a supernova, an extremely rare event following a white dwarf explosion. This event is poised to offer insights into several long-standing mysteries, including what causes white dwarfs to explode and how dark energy is accelerating the universe’s expansion. Read More »
Berkeley Lab’s Sean Peisert named editor-in-chief of IEEE Security and Privacy
CRD's Sean Peisert has been named the new editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal, IEEE Security and Privacy. Read More »
Craig Tull Retires After 38 Years at Berkeley Lab
After 38 years at Berkeley Lab, Craig Tull will retire this month from his role as head of CRD's Physics and X-Ray Science Computing Group. Read More »
CRD's Erich Strohmaier Retiring After Nearly 20 Years at Berkeley Lab
CRD's Erich Strohmaier Retiring After Nearly 20 Years at Berkeley Lab Read More »
Watch CSA Postdoc Symposium Presentations
Twenty-two postdoctoral fellows from across Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area shared the status of their current projects at the first CSA Postdoc Symposium. Video of the presentations is now available. Read More »
Can CT Scans Be Used to Quickly and Accurately Diagnose COVID-19?
Berkeley Lab data scientist Daniela Ushizima is exploring whether image recognition algorithms and a data analysis pipeline can help accurately distinguish COVID-19 abnormalities in CT scans and chest X-rays from other overlapping respiratory illnesses. Read More »
CRD Welcomes New Alvarez Fellow, Aditi Krishnapriyan
A long-distance runner for many years, Aditi Krishnapriyan – the latest postdoctoral researcher to be awarded the prestigious Alvarez Fellowship – brings a well-honed energy and intensity to her new position in the Computational Research Division. Read More »
Harnessing the Power of Exascale for Wind Turbine Simulations
ExaWind, a DOE Exascale Computing Project, is developing new simulation capabilities to more accurately predict the complex flow physics of wind farms, and Berkeley Lab is bringing its adaptive mesh refinement expertise to the project to help make this happen. Read More »
CRD’s Dan Martin Takes on New Role with the Exascale Computing Project
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project has named Berkeley Lab's Dan Martin team lead for their Earth and Space Science portfolio. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Collaborates to Prepare Photovoltaic Research for Exascale
CRD and NERSC scientists are collaborating with Carnegie Mellon and a number of other academic institutions on research that will use the nation’s first exascale computer to continue the search for new, more efficient photovoltaic solar cell materials. Read More »
CRD’s Sherry Li Takes on New Role at Exascale Computing Project
The Exascale Computing Project has named Sherry Li, a senior scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division, as team lead for the ECP’s Mathematical Libraries division. Read More »
Postdoc Symposium Expands Computing Sciences’ Training Program
Twenty-two postdoctoral fellows from across Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area shared the status of their current projects at the first CSA Postdoc Symposium, held January 30-31. Read More »
Symposium to Showcase Postdoctoral Fellows' Research
Twenty-two postdoctoral fellows in the Computing Sciences Area have been chosen to present their research during a two-day symposium taking place January 30-31 in Wang Hall (Building 59), room 3101. Read More »
CRD Staff Receive Three Best Paper Awards in One Week
Several staff in the Computational Research Division’s Performance Algorithms Group were authors on research papers honored at three separate workshops in November. Read More »
Longtime Lab and Pioneering Data Scientist Frank Olken has Died
Frank Olken, a data scientist who spent 36 years at Berkeley Lab tackling the challenge of big data before it became Big Data, died Oct. 18 at age 67. He also worked two stints as a National Science Foundation (NSF) program director in Arlington, Va. Read More »
Jackie Yao, Berkeley Lab’s 2019 Alvarez Fellow
Jackie Yao recently joined CRD as Berkeley Lab’s 2019 Luis W. Alvarez Fellow in Computing Sciences. Her research is focused on developing unprecedented numerical modeling to solve complex multiphysics problems involving electromagnetics, nonlinear magnetics, and acoustics. Read More »
NWB:N Gains Traction in the Neuroscience Community
Berkeley Lab developed Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology, a data standard for neurophysiology research and a software ecosystem that allows neuroscientists to share, archive, use, and build tools for analyzing data, is gaining traction in the neuroscience community. Read More »
Machine Learning Algorithms Help Predict Traffic Headaches
A team of Berkeley Lab computer scientists is working with the California Department of Transportation and UC Berkeley to use high performance computing and machine learning to help improve Caltrans’ real-time decision making when traffic incidents occur. Read More »
Neurodata Without Borders Project Wins 2019 R&D100 Award
Led by Berkeley Lab in collaboration with the Allen Institute for Brain Science and multiple neuroscience labs, the NWB:N project has created a data standard and software ecosystem that is transforming neurophysiology research. Read More »
CRD’s Zhe Bai Selected as a WHPC 2019 Fellow
Zhe Bai, a postdoctoral scholar in the Computational Research Division, has been selected by the Women in HPC organization as a 2019 Fellow. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Part of Two Five-Year, Multi-Million Dollar Quantum Computing Projects
With new funding from the U.S. Department of Energy, Berkeley Lab will lead one project - with CRD's Bert de Jong as the PI - and co-lead the other. Read More »
SMART Algorithm Makes Beamline Data Collection Smarter
CAMERA researchers have been working with beamline scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory to develop and test SMART, a mathematical method that enables autonomous experimental decision making without human interaction. Read More »
CRD Staff Get Funding for Post-Moore’s Law Computing Research
George Michelogiannakis and Dilip Vasudevan, research scientists in the Computational Research Division, have been awarded funding from the Army Research Office for two post-Moore’s law computing research projects. Read More »
CRD Researchers Nominated for Best Paper at ICPP2019
CRD’s Mauro Del Ben, Osni Marques, and Andrew Canning are developing new Eigensolver algorithms based on an iterative approach using an unconstrained energy functional scheme to improve scaling on parallel computing architectures. Read More »
Industry and CRD Partner to Build Energy Efficiency into Paint Design
Through DOE's HPC4Mfg program, PPG - one of the world's largest paint manufacturers - is collaborating with applied mathematicians in the Computational Research Division on computational models that will help optimize paint design and application to reduce energy consumption. Read More »
