Publications

Richard Gerber, Kathy Yelick, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, “Data Requirements from NERSC Requirements Reviews”, January 9, 2013,

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Richard A. Gerber, Job Analytics, November 8, 2012,

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Richard A. Gerber, Batch Strategies of Maximizing Throughput and Allocation, NERSC Users Group Monthly Webinar, October 2012, October 4, 2012,

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Richard A. Gerber, Uses for High Performance Computing, June 12, 2012,

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Who uses High Peformance Computing and what do they do with it? Presented for LBNL Summer Interns, June 12, 2012.

Richard A. Gerber, Introduction to High Performance Computers, June 12, 2012,

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Introduction for High Performance Computers. Presented to LBNL Summer Interns, June 12, 2012.

Richard A. Gerber, Challenges in HPC, June 12, 2012,

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Challenges in High Performance Computing. Presented to LBNL Summer Interns, June 12, 2012.

Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Nuclear Physics”, Workshop, March 26, 2012, LBNL LBNL-5355E

Report of the user requirements workshop for lattice gauge theory and nuclear physics computation at NERSC that took place May 26, 2011

Debugging and Optimization Tools, Presented to UC Berkeley CS 267 Class, Applications of Parallel Computer, February 16, 2012,

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User Requirements Gathered for the NERSC7 Procurement, February 3, 2012,

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Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Advanced Computational Science Research”, Workshop, January 2012, LBNL LBNL-5249E

Download File: NERSC-ASCR-WorkshopReport.pdf (pdf: 1.4 MB)

Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Fusion Energy Sciences”, Workshop, December 2011,

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HPC I/O in Scaling to Petascale and Beyond: Performance Analysis and Optimization of Applications, SC11, November 13, 2011,

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Richard A. Gerber, Introduction to HPC Systems, NERSC New User Training, September 13, 2011,

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Richard A. Gerber, Experiences with Tools at NERSC, Programming weather, climate, and earth-‐system models on heterogeneous mul-‐core platorms, NCAR, Boulder, CO, September 7, 2011,

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NERSC Overview for Environmental Energy Technologies, Berkeley Lab, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Berkeley, CA, June 2011,

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Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Basic Energy Sciences”, Workshop, June 10, 2011, LBNL LBNL-4809E

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Getting Started at NERSC, NERSC Training Webinar Berkeley Lab OSF, Oakland, CA, June 7, 2011,

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NERSC Overview for the Joint Genome Institute, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, May 2, 2011,

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Richard Gerber, Computers - BSA Merit Badge, March 2011,

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Richard Gerber, Debugging and Optimization Tools, Presented to CS267 class at UC-Berkeley, February 11, 2011,

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Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for High Energy Physics”, Workshop, November 15, 2010,

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Richard A. Gerber, Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for High Energy Physics, NUG 2010, Cray Quarterly, NERSC OSF, Oakland, CA, October 28, 2010,

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Richard A. Gerber, Introduction to Computing at NERSC, October 20, 2010,

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Submitting and Running Jobs on the Cray XT5, Joint XT Workshop, Berkeley, CA, February 1, 2010,

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Richard A. Gerber, Harvey J. Wasserman, “Large Scale Computing and Storage Requirements for Biological and Environmental Research”, Workshop, October 19, 2009, LBNL LBNL-2710E

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Computing and Storage Requirements for Biological and Environmental Researchj, NUG 2009, Boulder, CO, October 7, 2009,

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W. Allcock, R. Carlson, S. Cotter, E. Dart, V. Dattoria, B. Draney, R. Gerber, M. Helm, J. Hick, S. Hicks, S. Klasky, M. Livny, B. Maccabe, C. Morgan, S. Morss, L. Nowell, D. Petravick, J. Rogers, Y. Sekine, A. Sim, B. Tierney, S. Turnbull, D. Williams, L. Winkler, F. Wuerthwein, “ASCR Science Network Requirements”, Workshop, April 15, 2009,

Download File: ASCR-Net-Req-Workshop-2009-Final-Report.pdf (pdf: 4.5 MB)

ESnet publishes reports from Network and Science Requirement Workshops on a regular basis. This report was the product of a two-day workshop in Washington DC that addresses science requirements impacting operations of networking for 2009.

Richard A. Gerber, Breakthrough Science at NERSC, Cray Technical Workshop, Isle of Pines, SC, February 25, 2009,

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Richard A. Gerber, Franklin File Systems and I/O, NERSC Users Group, Oakland, CA, October 2, 2008,

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Richard Gerber, “Franklin Interactive Node Responsiveness”, June 9, 2008,

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Richard A. Gerber, Running Jobs on Franklin, September 19, 2007,

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Richard A. Gerber, Bassi - NERSC's New IBM POWER 5, NUG 2006, Princeton, NJ, June 13, 2006,

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Richard A. Gerber, Experiences Configuring, Validating, and Monitoring Bassi, NUG 2006, Princeton, NJ, June 13, 2006,

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Nathan C. Hearn, Susan A. Lamb, Robert A. Gruendl (Univ. of Ill.), Richard A. Gerber (NERSC/Berkeley Lab), “The Colliding Galaxy System Arp 119: Numerical Models and Infrared Observations”, Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series, January 17, 2000, 215:46H,

Lamb, S. A.; Hearn, N. C.; Gerber, R. A., “Velocity Fields in Impacted Gaseous Galactic Discs: A Numerical Survey using N-body/SPH Simulations”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, May 17, 1999, 31:829,

Lamb, S. A.; Gerber, R. A.; Rudnick, G. H.; Dewing, M., “Starbursts in Collisionally Produced Ring Galaxies: Comparisons Between Numerical Models and Observed Systems”, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Serie de Conferencias, May 3, 1997, 6:151,

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Richard A. Gerber, “Global Effects of Softening n-Body Galaxies”, Astrophysical Journal, August 1, 1996, 466:724-731,

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Smith, B.F.; Gerber, R.A.; Steiman-Cameron, T.Y.; Miller, R.H., “The Response of Disks to Oscillatory Modes in Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, June 17, 1996, 28:1189,

Rudnick, G. H.; Lamb, S. A.; Gerber, R. A.; Dewing, M., “A Comparison between Numerical Models of Collisionally Produced Ring Galaxies and Observed Systems”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, May 13, 1996, 28:826,

Gerber, R.A. & Lamb, S.A., “A Stellar and Gas Dynamical Numerical Model of Ring Galaxies”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, January 8, 1996, 278:345,

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Gerber, R. A.; Smith, B. F.; Steiman-Cameron, T. Y., “The Response of Disks to Oscillatory Modes in Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, December 11, 1995, 27:1353,

Gerber, Richard A, “Some Consequences of Using Gravitational Softening to Model N-body Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, June 12, 1995, 27:1201,

Lamb, S. A.; Gerber, R. A.; Balsara, D. S., “Off-Center Collisions Involving Rotating Disk Galaxies: 3-D Numerical Simulations”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, December 12, 1994, 26:1430,

Richard A. Gerber and Susan A. Lamb, “A Model for Collisionally Induced Disturbed Structure in Disk Galaxies”, Astrophysical Journal, August 20, 1994, 431:604-616,

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Susan A. Lamb, NORDITA and Neils Bohr Institute; Richard A. Gerber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and Dinshaw Balsara, Johns Hopkins University, “Galactic Scale Gas Flows in Colliding Galaxies: a-Dimensional, N-bodyjHydrodynamics Experiments”, Astrophysics and Space Science, May 1994, 216:337-346,

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Gerber, Richard A., “Some Consequences of Using Gravitational Softening to Model N-body Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, March 1994, 27:885,

Stellar and gas dynamics of interacting ring galaxies, Richard A. Gerber, Ph.D., October 1, 1993,

Susan A. Lamb, Richard A. Gerber, Dinshaw S. Balsara, “Galaxies in Collision: The Formation of Rings and Arcs”, Astron. Ges., Abstr. Ser, June 1, 1993, 8:56,

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Stellar and Gas Dynamics of Interacting Ring Galaxies: Front Material, Richard A. Gerber, May 1993,

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Stellar and Gas Dynamics of Interacting Ring Galaxies: Chapter 1 - Introduction, Richard A. Gerber, May 1993,

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Richard A. Gerber, Susan A. Lamb, and Dinshaw Balsara, “A Model of Ring Galaxies: Arp 147-Like Systems”, Astrophysical Journal, November 1, 1992, 399:L51-L54,

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Gerber, R. A.; Lamb, S. A., “Models for Collisionally Induced Disturbed Structure in Disk Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, May 18, 1992, 24:811,

Gerber, R. A.; Lamb, S. A.; Balsara, D. S., “A Model for Ring Galaxies: Arp 147-Like Systems”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, September 17, 1991, 23:1391G,

R.A. Gerber, S.A. Lamb (Univ. of Ill.), and D.S. Balsara (JHU), “Ring Formation in Off-Axis Collisions of Galaxies”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, March 11, 1991, BAAS 23:953G,

Gerber, Richard A.; Balsara, Dinshaw S.; Lamb, Susan A, “Dynamical experiments on models of colliding disk galaxies”, NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Paired and Interacting Galaxies: International Astronomical Union Colloquium, November 12, 1990, 124:737-742,

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R.A. Gerber, S.A. Lamb (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), D.S. Balsara (Johns Hopkins Univ.), “Combined Hydrodynamical and N-Body Studies of Colliding Galaxies: The Formation of Ring Galaxies”, 177th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, July 9, 1990, 22:1243G,

Gerber, R. A. and Lamb, S. A. and Miller, R. H., and Smith, B. F., “Models of colliding galaxies: kinetic energy and density enhancement”, Dynamics and Interactions of Galaxies, Proceedings, Springer, Berlin (Germany, F.R.), June 4, 1990, 223,

Gerber. R. A.; Lamb, S. A.; Miller, R. H.; Smith, B. F., “Potential Sites for Star Formation in Colliding Galaxies”, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Workshop of the Advanced School of Astronomy, February 12, 1990, 160:366G,

Lamb, S. A.; Miller, R. H.; Gerber, R. A.; Smith, B. F., “Models of Colliding Galaxies: Kinetic Energy and Density Enhancements”, Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Kona Symposium of Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy, January 8, 1990, 158:235L,

R. A. Gerber, D. S. Balsara, and S. A. Lamb (Univ. of Ill.), “Potential Sites of Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies: Numerical Experiments”, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, September 11, 1989, 21:1163G,

S.A Lamb, R.A. Gerber (U. Illinois), R.H. Miller (U. Chicago), B.F. Smith (NASA/Ames), “Models of Colliding Galaxies: Kinetic Energy and Density Enhancements”, 173rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, September 10, 1988,