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Franklin, NERSC's Cray XT4, is among the largest machines on the list of Top 500 supercomputers in the world.
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Contour plots from Density Functional Theory calculations showing electronic density of states in a model highly mismatched alloy created by adding varying amounts of oxygen (3.125% in (a) and 6.25% in (b)) to a zinc (light blue) selenide (orange) compound. Oxygen atoms are surrounded by the dark-blue high density region. Computations performed on Franklin have showed that introduction of oxygen impurities into a unique class of semiconductors known as "highly mismatched alloys" (HMAs) can substantially enhance the thermoelectric performance of these materials without the customary degradation in electric conductivity. Thermoelectric materials involve direct conversion of temperature differences into electric voltage. In a paper published recently in Physical Review Letters, the researchers suggest that their results could allow a variety of abundant materials and new physics for scalable, widely tunable, high-thermopower thermoelectrics. [ MORE...] |
News CenterCray XT5 Hopper (Phase 1) Prepares NERSC for Petascale ComputingAfter several months of rigorous scientific testing, NERSC has accepted a 5,312-core Cray XT5 machine, called Hopper (Phase 1). [MORE] Hopper in Production March 1Hopper account charging has begun (charge factor=1, same as Franklin) and disk quotas will be enforced. Default $SCRATCH quota will be 2TB. File purging will start on June 1st. [MORE] First Round of 2010 NISE AwardsAbout 29M hours of computing time is available to existing or new NERSC projects during AY2010. Eleven projects have been selected to receive ~12M hours. Approximately 17M hours remain available. [MORE] Science News
The Manycore Revolution and Parallel SoftwareA new software ecosystem is expected emerge over the next decade to support changes brought about by manycore and multicore systems. NERSC Director Kathy Yelick and colleagues from Berkeley have been exploring whether languages like Unified Parallel C (UPC), which runs on all of the major DOE Office of Science platforms, can provide the best path forward, lowering the barrier to entry for parallel computing and making parallel machines more attractive as commercial products. [MORE] |
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