Newsroom

The NERSC Newsroom provides links to current and archived news about the NERSC Center. For monthly news about NERSC, ESnet and Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division, see Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences News.

2010

• Cray XT5 Hopper (Phase 1) Prepares NERSC for Petascale Computing (02-26-2010)
• Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Data Stored at NERSC (02-26-2010)
• Cultural Analytics at NERSC (02-18-2010)
• NERSC's XT4 Used for Thermoelectric Device Design (01-25-2010)

2009

• NERSC Helps Researchers Discover a Potential On-Off Switch for Nanoelectronics (12-22-09)
• The Hybrid Multicore Consortium (11-18-09)
• NERSC Selects IBM Technology to Power Cloud Computing Research (11-16-09)
• NERSC at SC09 (11-05-09)
• NERSC Results Help University of Florida Student Win Metropolis Award (10-30-09)
• NERSC Continues Tradition of Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis with the Planck Cluster (10-30-09)
• NERSC Uses Stimulus Funds to Overcome Software Challenges for Scientific Computing (10-30-09)
• Researchers Prepare U.S. Climate Community for 100-Gigabit Data Transfers (10-30-09)
• Simulations show that cuts in greenhouse gas emissions would save arctic ice, reduce sea level rise (10-27-09)
• The Cray XT5 Hopper System is Delivered to NERSC (10-19-09)
• DOE to Explore Scientific Cloud Computing at Argonne and NERSC (10-14-09)
• ASCR Discovery: Lasers without mirrors, designed by supercomputer (10-14-09)
• NERSC Contributes to EMGeo Mapping Software for Finding Hidden Oil and Gas Reserves (9-30-09)
• ASCR Discovery: Reanalysis Project targets once-and-future weather (9-29-09)
• SciDAC Review: Electronic Structure Calculations: Divide and Conquer for Tractable Computations (9-11-09)
• SciDAC Review: Green Flash Project: The Challenge of Energy-Efficient HPC (9-11-09)
• Scientific Computing: Smashing the Trillion Zone Barrier (8-27-09)
• In the News (ASCR Discovery): Code controls communication to boost computer performance (8-27-09)
• Increase in IO Bandwidth to Enhance Future Understanding of Climate Change (8-06-09)
• NERSC Awards Supercomputer Contract to Cray (8-05-2009)
• Jeff Broughton Brings 30 Years of HPC Experience to NERSC as New Head of Systems Department (7-31-09)
• NERSC Hosts Workshop About the Dawn of Exascale Storage (7-31-09)
• NERSC's Franklin Supercomputer Upgraded to Double Its Scientific Capability (7-20-09)
• NERSC Helps Discover Cosmic Transients (6-15-09)
• ASCR Discovery: Scientists hope to glimpse the secret life of clouds (6-12-09)
• Scientists Demonstrate Tools for Analyzing Massive Datasets (6-11-09)
• ASCR Discovery: Scientists Open Their Eyes to Visualization's Potential (6-3-09)
• Deceiphering Science From Laser Particle Accelerators (5-26-09)
• NERSC Builds Gateways For Science Sharing (5-26-09)
• NERSC Delivers 59.9 Petabytes of Storage with Cutting-Edge Technology (5-26-09)
• VisIt Now Available On Franklin (5-26-09)
• ESnet and NERSC Help Speed Up Data Transfers Between Department of Energy Facilities (5-18-09)
• NERSC Increases System Storage and Security for Users (4-28-09)
• NERSC's Deep Sky Project Provides a Portal Into Data Universe (3-30-09)
• Berkeley Lab Checkpoint Restart Improves Productivity (3-30-09)
• Green Flash Project Runs First Prototype Successfully (3-11-09)

2008

• Humanities and High Performance Computers Connect at NERSC (12-22-08)
• NERSC to Provide Resources to INCITE Projects Studying Combustion, Fusion Energy, Materials and Accelerator Design (12-19-08)
• A Rising Tide of Cosmic Data: Simulating Planck's Full Focal Plane—and Beyond (12-10-08)
• IMPACTS: On the Threshold of Abrupt Climate Changes (9-17-08)
• In the News (MSNBC): Visualizing the Unseen Forces of Turbulence (9-16-08)
• NERSC Releases Software Test for Its Next Supercomputer (9-12-08)
• NOAA Awarded 2.6 Million Processor Hours at NERSC to Run Climate Change Models (9-11-08)
• A Computer for the Clouds (8-21-08)
• NERSC Researcher John Shalf Discusses Low-Power Supercomputer (5-9-08)
• High Performance Humanities (5-8-08)
• Berkeley Lab Researchers Propose a New Breed of Supercomputers for Global Climate Predictions (5-5-08)
• Code Booster: Award-Winning Research on Code Optimization Explores Multicore Computing (5-5-08)
• Ceramic, Heal Thyself: Simulation Shows How Defect-Engineered Zirconia Repairs Radiation-Induced Damage (4-22-08)
• The Greening of High Performance Computing (4-10-08)
• Living the Vision: A Profile of Kathy Yelick (4-8-08)
• Making “Parallel Programming” Synonymous with “Programming” (3-24-08)
• Berkeley Lab Researchers Lead Parallel Computing Research Center at UC Berkeley (3-18-08)
• A Modest Proposal for Petascale Computing (2-8-08)
• Leading Supercomputing Centers in Switzerland and U.S. to Share Staff Expertise, Experience (2-7-08)
• DOE Allocates NERSC Supercomputing Resources to Research Combustion, Climate Change, Energy, Accelerators (1-17-08)

2007

• The Next Step in Powering Computers (KGO-TV news story with video) (11-5-07)
• NERSC Announces Acceptance of One of the World's Largest Supercomputers (11-1-07)
• Prof. Kathy Yelick Named New Director for DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (10-29-07)
• Scientists Compute Death Throes of White Dwarf Star in 3D (3-22-07)
• Confronting Parallelism: The View from Berkeley (3-2-07)
• Cray Delivers First Third of the Franklin XT4 System to NERSC (1-17-07)
• DOE INCITE Program Awards Large Allocations at NERSC to Study Supernovae, Fusion Energy, Climate Change, Combustion, Chemistry and Accelerator Design (1-8-07)

2006

• Horst Simon Steps Down As NERSC Director (12-15-06)
• Berkeley Lab to Showcase HPC and Networking Leadership in Talks, Demos at SC06 Conference (11-10-06)
• The Software Challenges of Petascale Computing (11-10-06)
• The Yin and Yang of Understanding Data (11-3-06)
• A Walk along an Interface Yields Its Mobility (10-27-06)
• DOE Announces $60 Million in Projects to Accelerate Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (9-07-06)
• LBNL to Lead Five Projects, Partner in Eight Others under DOE's Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (9-07-06)
• ESnet and Internet2 Partner to Deploy Next-Generation Network for Scientific Research and Discovery (8-31-06)
• Cray Wins $52 Million Supercomputer Contract with NERSC (8-10-06)
• Energy Department Providing Additional Supercomputing Resources to Study Hurricane Effects on Gulf Coast (7-19-06)
• DOE's Office of Science Awards 18 Million Hours of Supercomputing Time to 15 Teams for Large-Scale Scientific Computing (1-31-06)
• NERSC Supercomputers to Analyze Hurricane Coastal Surges, Help Plan Rebuilding in Louisiana, Gulf Coast (1-25-06)
• New IBM Cluster to Enter Production January 9 (1-5-06)

2005

• NERSC Launches Linux Networx Supercomputer into Production (8-16-05)
• Groundbreaking Combustion Research Featured on Cover of Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (7-19-05)
• Berkeley Lab to Host Sixth Workshop on the DOE Advanced CompuTational Software (ACTS) Collection for HPC Applications (4-13-05)

2004

• DOE Allocates Massive Supercomputer Resources to Drive Advances in Combustion, Astrophysics and Protein Structure Research (12-22-04)
• Berkeley Lab Scientists Gain New INCITE on Photosynthesis (10-1-04)
• Laser Wakefield Acceleration: Channeling the Best Beams Ever (9-29-04)
• "The Fastest Computers in the World: The prospects for another Earth-Simulator-like event in 2005 are very good" by Horst Simon, cover story in the August 2004 edition of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation.
• DOE Office of Science INCITE Program Seeking Proposals for Large-Scale Scientific Computing (7-13-04)
• Tuning the Nanoworld: New Methods for Constructing Nanostructures and Calculating Their Electronic States (7-7-04)
• Heidelberg Talk Tells How to "Fool the Masses" (6-29-04)

2003

• DOE Announces Major INCITE Allocations of NERSC Resources (12-23-03)
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to Showcase Computing, Grids Expertise at SC2003 Conference (11-10-03)
• Modeling a Cosmic Bomb: DOE Big Splash Award Produces a NERSC First (10-31-03)
• NERSC Helps Nearby Supernova Factory Discover Supernovae at a Rate of 8 per Month (9-26-03)
• Improved Algorithm Speeds Up Fusion Code by a Factor of 5 (9-2-03)
• Scientists Find "Fingerprint" of Human Activities in Recent Tropopause Height Changes (9-2-03)
• INCITE Program to Allocate Major Department of Energy Office of Science Computing Resources to Key Scientific Projects (7-31-03)
• Simulation Computed at NERSC Matches Historic Gamma-Ray Burst (7-21-03)
• Fourth Workshop on the DOE Advanced Computational Software Collection (5-9-03)
• Science-of-Scale Applications Achieve Significant Results and up to 68% of Peak Performance on NERSC's 10 Tflop/s IBM SP (4-7-03)
• NERSC Center Deploys 10 Teraflop/s IBM Supercomputer (3-10-03)
• NERSC Helps Get the Physics out of KamLAND Data (1-27-03)
• David Quarrie Taking Two-Year Assignment to Manage ATLAS Software Project (1-21-03)
• Berkeley Lab Seeking Applicants for Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Computational Science (1-6-03)

2002

• Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Leads International Team to Win High-Performance Computing Bandwidth Challenge (11-25-02)
• Berkeley Lab to Share Computing, Networking Expertise in SC2002 Technical Program and Exhibition (11-4-02)
• NERSC to Offer 10 Teraflop/s System by Early 2003 (11-1-02)
• Creating Science-Driven Computer Architecture: The "Blue Planet" Proposal (10-15-02)
• NERSC Helps Climate Scientists Complete First Ever 1,000-Year Run of Nation's Leading Climate Change Modeling Application (9-4-02)
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Team Achieves 10.6 Gigabits/Second Data Throughput in 10-Gigabit Ethernet Test (7-3-02)
• Registration Open for September 4-7 Workshop on the DOE Advanced Computational Software Collection (7-3-02)
• Berkeley Lab's RAGE Telepresence Robot Captures R&D100 Award (7-02-02)
• Andreas Adelmann Is NERSC's First Alvarez Fellow in Computational Science (5-29-02)
• NERSC, IBM Announce Grids Collaboration (3-22-02)
• NERSC's Peter Nugent Named to Hubble Space Telescope Users Committee (3-4-02)

2001

• Colliding Black Holes, Dancers, and Electron Microscopy Push Network Boundaries by Moving Billions of Bits in Network Bandwidth Challenge at SC2001 Conference (11-16-01)
• RAGE Rolls Out in Denver (11-9-01)
• Berkeley Lab to Present Leading HPC Experts in Series of Talks at SC2001 Conference (11-9-01)
• World's Largest Unclassified Supercomputer Goes Online, Scientists Already Reporting Significant Results (10-8-01)
• Nuclear Science and Physics Programs Invest in a Major Expansion of the PDSF Cluster at NERSC (10-8-01)
• Berkeley Lab Receives Multi-Million-Dollar Funding to Develop New Computational Tools for Advancing Scientific Research (8-14-01)
• Are the Digits of Pi Random? A NERSC Researcher May Hold the Key (7-24-01)
• Ranking Shows U.S. Department of Energy's NERSC at Berkeley Lab Has World's Most Powerful Unclassified Supercomputer (6-21-01)
• A Lucky Catch: The Oldest, Most Distant Type IA Supernova Confirmed by Supercomputer Analysis at NERSC (4-2-01)

2000

• Berkeley Lab Demonstrates Leadership in High-Performance Computing and Networking at SC2000 (11-14-00)
• Berkeley Lab to Release AMR Software Package at SC2000 (11-1-00)
• NERSC's Bill Kramer Leads Networking at SC2000 (11-1-00)
• Scientific Data Management Group Making Significant Progress, Also Making News (6-16-00)
• NERSC to Share Major Grant for Climate Model Research (5-15-00)
• NERSC's Deb Agarwal Named One of the Top 25 Women on the Web (5-1-00)
• BOOMERANG Antarctic Balloon Flight Sees a Flat Universe -- NERSC Supercomputer Analysis Crucial to the Result (4-26-00)
• NERSC Accepts New IBM Supercomputer -- First Step Toward 3 Trillion Calculations per Second Capability (3-28-00)
• An Algorithm for the Ages: PSLQ, a Better Way to Find Integer Relations (1-20-00)

1999

• Solved at Last: A Fundamental Problem of Quantum Physics (12-24-99)
• NERSC's Lenny Oliker Co-Authors "Best Paper of SC99" (11-30-99)
• Berkeley Lab to Highlight High-Performance Computing and Networking Expertise, History at SC99 (11-10-99)
• DOE Establishes Probe Testbed for Storage-Intensive Applications (10-2-99)
• New Biological Database Seeks Out Products of Alternative Gene Splicing (8-2-99)
• NERSC Celebrates 25 Years of Computing (7-7-99)
• New IBM RS/6000 System Rolls into NERSC Machine Room (7-2-99)
• NERSC Picks IBM System for Next-Generation Supercomputer with 3 Trillion Calculations per Second Capability (4-28-99)
• NERSC Achieves Breakthrough 93% Utilization on Cray T3E (4-19-99)
• NERSC Presents Computational Science Lecture Series in D.C. (3-30-99)
• DOE Broadens Role of Peer Review in NERSC Allocations (2-22-99)
• Forbes ASAP Picks Berkeley Lab Visualization as Cover Image to Illustrate Power of Supercomputers (2-22-99)
• Science Magazine Names Supernova Cosmology Project "Breakthrough of the Year" (1-4-99)
• Future Technologies Group Gets Four-Year Funding for Cluster Work (1-4-99)

1998

• NERSC Is Partner in Winning Supercomputing's Top Prize (11-17-98)
• Computing Sciences Demonstrates Latest Scientific Computing Tools at High-Performance Computing and Networking Conference (11-5-98)
• Phillip Colella Receives 1998 Sidney Fernbach Award (11-3-98)
• Powerful Computers Advance Fusion Research at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (9-18-98)
• ACTS Toolkit Support Debuts on the Web (8-27-98)
• Did the Big Bang Come With Strings Attached? (6-30-98)
• NERSC Gets Funding to Enhance Climate Modeling Tools (3-6-98)
• Quantum Dot Simulations from T3E Make Journal Cover (1-30-98)

1997

• International Survey Ranks Berkeley Lab as Top Unclassified Computing Center in United States (12-17-97)
• Rock-Solid Science: Scaling New Heights in Computational Science (11-10-97)
• NERSC Delivers One Million T3E CPU-Hours to Scientific Users (10-28-97)
• NERSC First to Reach Decade-Long Goal of Seamless Shutdown, Restart on Massively Parallel Processing System (10-21-97)
• Intel, Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley to Create Off-The-Shelf Parallel Supercomputing Network (10-9-97)
• Berkeley Researchers Eliminate One Theory in Mystery of Missing Xenon, but Find New Clues About Element's Behavior (9-25-97)
• Computing Sciences Reorganizes to Better Align R&D Programs in High-Performance Computing and Networking Technology (8-11-97)
• NERSC Begins Acceptance Tests of Cray T3E-900 (7-7-97)
• CRAY T3E-900 Getting Up and Running at NERSC (6-21-97)