Hardware, Software, Workflow and the Fate of the Universe
March 9, 2007
Peter is a member of the SciDAC Computational Astrophysics Consortium, the Supernova Factory, the SNAP Collaboration, the GOSH Collaboration and a former member of the Supernova Cosmology Project, which was named Science Magazine's 1998 "Breakthrough of the Year." He has been a NERSC user since 1996.
Peter will talk about his recent work using supernova to measure the expansion of the universe, describe his particular High Performance Computing challenges and solutions, and present his workflow and data analysis implementations and needs.
About NERSC and Berkeley Lab
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) is the primary high-performance computing facility for scientific research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the NERSC Center serves more than 4,000 scientists at national laboratories and universities researching a wide range of problems in combustion, climate modeling, fusion energy, materials science, physics, chemistry, computational biology, and other disciplines. Berkeley Lab is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory located in Berkeley, California. It conducts unclassified scientific research and is managed by the University of California for the U.S. DOE Office of Science. For more information about computing sciences at Berkeley Lab, please visit www.lbl.gov/cs.
