Newsroom

The NERSC Newsroom provides links to current and archived news about the NERSC Center. For the latest news, see the NERSC News bimonthly newsletter.

2008

• 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)