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CRD’s Xiaoye 'Sherry' Li Named 2016 SIAM Fellow
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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 »
CRD Researchers Honored with Director’s Awards for Exceptional Achievement
Five employees in the Computing Sciences organization staff, including CRD's Deborah Agarwal and James Sethian, are recipients of this year’s Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement. Read More »
CRD’s Oliker New Lead for DOE’s SUPER Project to Improve HPC Performance, Efficiency
Leonid “Lenny” OIiker of the Computational Research Division has stepped in as the leader of the Institute for Sustained Performance, Energy, and Resilience, or SUPER, an HPC performance project that's part of DOE's SciDAC Program. Read More »
Ice Sheet Model Reveals Most Comprehensive Projections for West Antarctica’s Future
A new international study is the first to use a high-resolution, large-scale computer model to estimate how much ice the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could lose over the next couple of centuries, and how much that could add to sea-level rise. Read More »
CRD’s Buluç Receives 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers
Aydin Buluç of the Computational Research Division has been named a recipient of the 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers. Buluç is one of three recipients of this year’s award, which will be presented at the SC15 conference in November. Read More »
New Mathematics Advances the Frontier of Macromolecular Imaging
Berkeley Lab researchers have introduced new mathematical theory and an algorithm, which they call "Multi-tiered iterative phasing (M-TIP)," to solve the reconstruction problem from fluctuation X-ray scattering data. This approach is an important step in unlocking the door to new advances in biophysics and has the promise of ushering in new tools to help solve some of the most challenging problems in the life sciences. Read More »
