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Educating for Exascale
Some 25 graduate and post-graduate students recently spent four intense days preparing for the next generation of parallel supercomputers and exascale at the Parallel Computing in Molecular Sciences (ParCompMolSci) Summer School and Workshop hosted by Berkeley Lab held August 6-9 in downtown Berkeley. Read More »
Tess Smidt, “Atomic Architect” and 2018 Luis Alvarez Fellow
To non-scientists, Tess Smidt describes herself as an “atomic architect.” And as Berkeley Lab’s 2018 Luis W. Alvarez Fellow in Computing Sciences, Smidt is designing a neural network that can automatically generate novel atomic crystal structures. Read More »
Berkeley Lab-Developed Digital Library is a Game Changer for Environmental Research
Developed by Berkeley Lab researchers, ESS-DIVE is a new digital archive that serves as a repository for hundreds of U.S. Department of Energy-funded research projects under the agency’s Environmental System Science umbrella. Read More »
New ECP Co-Design Center to Focus on Exascale Machine Learning
The Exascale Computing Project has initiated ExaLearn, a new ECP co-design center focusing on exascale machine-learning software. Berkeley Lab is one of eight national labs participating. Read More »
Univ. of Puerto Rico Team Applies Deep Learning to Structural Biology
Two students from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez are spending their summer in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Chemistry, Materials & Climate Group learning everything they can about deep learning and how it can improve protein structure prediction. Read More »
'Women @ The Lab' Recognizes CRD’s Ann Almgren and Daniela Ushizima
Sixteen women from various Berkeley Lab areas will be honored at the “Women @ The Lab” awards ceremony today at 3 p.m. in the Building 50 auditorium. CRD’s Ann Almgren and Daniela Ushizima will be among the honorees. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Hosts Eight CSGF Fellows in 2018
This year, Berkeley Lab will be hosting eight Computational Science Graduate Fellows. These represent some of the nation’s brightest graduate students in computational science, each pursing a PhD in a field that uses HPC to solve complex science and engineering problems. Read More »
Berkeley Lab CS Staff Play Integral Role in ISC18
Numerous Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences staff will be participating in the ISC18 conference June 24-28 in Frankfurt, Germany. Read More »
Berkeley Researchers Use Machine Learning to Search Science Data
Science Search, a web-based search engine for scientific data is currently being developed by a team of researchers in Berkeley Lab's CRD and NERSC. The team is also developing innovative machine learning tools to pull contextual information from scientific datasets and automatically generate metadata tags for each file. As a proof-of-concept, the team is working with staff at the Molecular Foundry, to demonstrate the concepts of Science Search on the images captured by the facility's instruments. Read More »
De Jong Named Electronic Structure Editor-in-Chief
CRD Senior Scientist and Group Leader Bert de Jong was recently named a founding editor-in-chief for Electronic Structure, a new Institute of Physics scholarly journal. Read More »
CRD Post-doc Goes from Medical Devices to Mars Landing
Applied mathematician Mike MacNeil joined the Computational Research Division’s Analytics and Visualization group at Berkeley Lab as a postdoctoral researcher in August 2017, where he is working to develop new algorithms that improve scientists’ ability to shift through the image data sets they glean from experiments run at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source. Read More »
Physicists and Machine Learning Experts Team Up to Tackle the TrackML Challenge
Machine learning experts, computer scientists and physicists have partnered with Kaggle on the TrackML Particle Tracking Challenge, a competition designed to inspire the development of an algorithm that can quickly reconstruct particle tracks from 3D coordinates left in silicon particle detectors following millions of particle collisions. Read More »
Computing Sciences Summer Student Program Draws 90+ Participants
Dozens of college students from around the world will spend the next two months at Berkeley Lab as part of the Computing Sciences Summer Student Program. Read More »
New Algorithm Enhances Ptychographic Image Reconstruction
Researchers from CAMERA, the University of Texas and Tianjin Normal University—all members of the SHARP collaboration—have developed a model that further enhances SHARP’s reconstruction capabilities. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Paves the Way for Real-time Ptychographic Streaming
What began nearly a decade ago as a Berkeley Lab Laboratory-Directed Research and Development proposal is now a reality, and it is already changing the way scientists run experiments at the Advanced Light Source—and, eventually, other light sources across the Department of Energy complex—by enabling real-time streaming of ptychographic image data in a production environment. Read More »
Planck Collaboration Wins 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize
The Planck Team—including researchers in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s (Berkeley Lab’s) Computational Research and Physics divisions—have been awarded the 2018 Gruber Cosmology Prize. Read More »
ACM’s Software System Award Honors Project Jupyter Team
The Project Jupyter team has been honored with an ACM Software System Award for developing a tool that has had a lasting influence on computing. Project Jupyter evolved from IPython, an effort pioneered by Fernando Pérez, a staff scientist in Berkeley Lab's CRD. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Hosts Neurodata Without Borders Hackathon
Thirty-one neuroscience experts from across the country came to Berkeley Lab last Thursday and Friday to participate in the fifth Neurodata Without Borders: Neurophysiology (NWB:N) project hackathon. Read More »
Berkeley Lab’s Julian Borrill Elected Co-Spokesperson of CMB-S4
Berkeley Lab’s Julian Borrill has been elected co-spokesperson for the CMB-S4 collaboration, the next-generation ground-based experiment to study the Cosmic Microwave Background. Read More »
Computational Research Division Hosts UC Merced Grad Students
On April 19, a group of PhD students from UC Merced, all participants in the National Science Foundation’s Interdisciplinary Computational Graduate Education program, visited Berkeley Lab to learn about the many ways computing can be applied to research problems. Read More »
Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop Platform for Hosting Science Data Analytics Competitions
NNSA is hosting a competition to find innovative algorithms to detect non-natural radiation sources in urban environments, and they've teamed up with researchers in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research, Nuclear Science and Information Technology divisions to build a Kaggle-inspired data analytics competition platform to host it. Read More »
Helen Cademartori Named CS Deputy for Operations
Helen Cademartori, is joining the Computing Sciences Area as Deputy for Operations and Operations Deputy for the CRD. In her new role, Cademartori will manage the CS Directorate's Business, Administration, Safety, Property and Information Technology staff.
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Mueller’s Career Path a Blueprint for Other Researchers
Finding a career can be an exciting and sometimes challenging time in one’s life. It involves being noticed by your peers and making connections to find people to work with. This can be intimidating for some but comes naturally to others, like researcher Juliane Mueller. Read More »
COSMIC Impact: Next-Gen X-ray Microscopy Platform Now Operational
With help from Berkeley Lab’s Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA), the Advanced Light Source's new COSMIC (Coherent Scattering and Microscopy) beamline is specialized for studies of active chemistry and electronic properties at tiny scales. Read More »
A Game Changer: Metagenomic Clustering Powered by HPC
A team of researchers from Berkeley Lab's CRD and JGI took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology—the Markov Clustering algorithm—and modified it to run quickly, efficiently and at scale on distributed-memory supercomputers. Read More »
