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CRD’s Wes Bethel Presents Paper on In Situ Methods and Infrastructure at Eurovis 2016

June 10, 2016

Wes Bethel, who leads CRD’s Data Analytics and Visualization Group, presented State-of-the-Art Report paper “In Situ Methods, Infrastructures and Applications on High Performance Computing Platforms” at the Eurovis 2016 conference last week. The conference was held June 6-10 at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Read More »

High-performing hybrid

June 1, 2016

Berkeley Lab Alvarez Fellow Jarrod McClean is preparing for a quantum-classical computing future by yoking quantum processors with classical ‪HPC‬ systems into a hybrid computer. Read More »

Brian Friesen Helps Cray Surprise an Inquisitive High School Student

May 23, 2016

Brian Friesen, a post-doc working closely with CRD’s Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, tweaked his travel plans to help an inquisitive high school student to calculate the probability of surviving a zombie apocalypse. He also helped answer student questions about math and supercomputers. Read More »

Berkeley Lab’s OpenMSI Licensed to ImaBiotech

May 19, 2016

Two years ago, Berkeley Lab researchers developed OpenMSI—the most advanced computational tool for analyzing and visualizing mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) data. Now, OpenMSI has been licensed to support ImaBiotech’s Multimaging™ technology in the field of pharmaceutical and cosmetic research and development. Read More »

Scott Baden: CRD’s Computer Languages and System Software Group Lead

May 18, 2016

Scott Baden has been named Computer Languages and Systems Software Group Lead in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division (CRD). In addition to managing the group, he will also be doing research on program restructuring to improve performance on supercomputers and also look into novel implementation techniques that may someday be incorporated in an automated program-restructuring tool. Read More »

CRD’s Xiaoye 'Sherry' Li Named 2016 SIAM Fellow

March 31, 2016

Berkeley Lab’s Xiaoye “Sherry” Li has been named a 2016 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She being recognized for advances in the development of fast and scalable sparse matrix algorithms and fostering their use in large-scale scientific and engineering applications. Read More »

Berkeley Lab Staff Contribute Papers to SIAM Conference on Parallel Computing

March 28, 2016

When the seventeenth meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing is held April 12-15 in Paris, France, a number of Berkeley Lab staff will contribute their expertise in papers and invited talks. Read More »

CRD’s Bert de Jong Named to Editorial Board of Computer Physics Communications Journal

March 10, 2016

Bert de Jong, leader of CRD’s Computational Chemistry, Materials & Climate Group, has been named as Specialist Editor for the journal Computer Physics Communications, an international journal and program library for computational physics and physical chemistry. Read More »

New study details the searing future of extreme heat

February 23, 2016

Heat waves that typically strike once every 20 years could become yearly events across 60 percent of Earth's land surface by 2075, if greenhouse gas emissions continue unchecked.
If stringent emissions-reductions measures are put in place, however, these extreme heat events could be reduced significantly. These are among the findings of a new study from Berkeley Lab and NCAR. Read More »

Updated Workflows for New LHC ERA

February 22, 2016

To deal with the new data deluge from a recently upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC), researchers working on one of the facility's largest experiments—ATLAS—are relying on updated workflow management tools developed primarily by a group of researchers at the Berkeley Lab. Read More »

Xiaoye "Sherry" Li to Lead CRD Scalable Solvers Group

February 12, 2016

Sherry Li has been selected to lead the Scalable Solvers Group in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division (CRD). Her appointment was effective on February 12, 2016. Read More »

Assessing the Impact of Human-Induced Climate Change

January 20, 2016

Berkeley Lab and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research scientists develop and apply new method to determine whether specific climate impacts can be traced to human-caused emissions. Read More »

ESnet, CENIC Announce Joint Cybersecurity Initiative

January 19, 2016

CRD's Sean Peisert will be director of the new CENIC/ESnet initiative to jointly develop cybersecurity strategies and research projects. Peisert, who was also recently named as the chief cybersecurity strategist for CENIC, has worked extensively in computer security research and development. Read More »

CRD's Dáithí Stone Comments on Recent Paris Climate Agreement

December 23, 2015

Carbon Brief spoke to a number of prominent scientists - including Dáithí Stone of the Computational Research Division - at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco to get their thoughts on the new Paris climate agreement. Read More »

Xiaoye "Sherry" Li Elected to SIAM Council

December 14, 2015

Sherry Li, a member of CRD’s Scalable Solvers Group, has been elected to the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Council where she will help shall formulate the scientific policies of SIAM, monitor its technical activities, propose new activities,and recommend action to the Board as appropriate. Read More »

OpenMSI Wins R&D100 Award

November 17, 2015

OpenMSI, the most advanced web-available tool for analyzing and visualizing mass spectrometry instruments (MSI) data was one of seven Berkeley Lab winners of R&D100 awards announced last week. Oliver Rübel of CRD and Ben Bowen of the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division led the development of OpenMSI with collaboration from NERSC. Read More »

CRD Research Team Optimizing Spark Data Analytics Framework for HPC

November 13, 2015

A team of scientists from Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division (CRD) has been awarded a two-year, $110,000 grant by Intel to support their goal of enabling data analytics software stacks—notably Spark—to scale out on next-generation high performance computing (HPC) systems. Read More »

‘Sidecars’ Pave the Way for Concurrent Analytics of Large-Scale Simulations

November 2, 2015

A new software tool developed through a multi-disciplinary collaboration at Berkeley Lab allows researchers running large-scale simulations at NERSC and other supercomputing facilities to do data analytics and visualizations while the simulations are running. Read More »

Lab Staff to Ply Expertise at SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra

October 21, 2015

Xiaoye Sherry Li will give an invited talk at the 2015 SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra. She and 10 other Computing Sciences staff contributed papers and posters to the conference program. Read More »

New Berkeley Lab Partnership Offers Computing Science Research Opportunities to Faculty, Students from Diverse Backgrounds

October 12, 2015

A new program being launched by Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences organization to provide research opportunities for faculty and students from diverse backgrounds will begin with an introductory Dec. 7-8 workshop. Read More »

Is Your Digital Information More at Risk Today Than 10 Years Ago?

October 12, 2015

Researchers from the University of New Mexico and Berkeley Lab say cybersecurity breeches are not happening more frequently than they did a decade ago. And these data breaches in general are not growing in size. Read More »

CRD’s Costin Iancu to Present at NITRD Workshop on Software Sustainability

October 10, 2015

Costin Iancu of CRD’s Computer Languages and Systems Software (CLaSS) Group will give a short talk and present a poster at the Oct. 15-16 workshop on Computational Science & Engineering Software Sustainability and Productivity Challenges. An inter-agency workshop sponsored by the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD), CSESSP Challenges will identify the unique issues around software productivity and sustainability faced by the NITRD computational science… Read More »

After 10 Years, IMG Still Revolutionizing Genomics

October 5, 2015

This year, the Integrated Microbial Genome (IMG) data management system celebrates its tenth anniversary. In honor of this milestone, the Berkeley Lab researchers who led the development of IMG—Victor M Markowitz and Nikos C Kyrpides—reflect on its development, evolution and impact. Read More »

New DOE Office of Science Support for CAMERA to Develop Computational Mathematics for Experimental Facilities Research

September 22, 2015

The Department of Energy has announced approval of a joint ASCR-BES-supported award of $10.5 million over three years to expand the Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA). Read More »

Berkeley Lab Joins DOE’s New HPC4Manufacturing Program

September 16, 2015

Berkeley Lab is collaborating with Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge national laboratories to lead a new Department of Energy program designed to fund and foster public-private R&D projects that enhance U.S. competitiveness in clean energy manufacturing. Read More »