National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center 2004 Annual Report
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THE YEAR IN PERSPECTIVE
RESEARCH NEWS
A warmer, stormier world : : By the end of this century, bigger hurricanes, longer heat waves, and more extreme weather will be evident
Going to the extremes
Breeding bigger hurricanes
Improving hurricane defenses
Under the computational microscope : : Materials scientists and chemists are using computational tools to understand, improve, and create new kinds of materials
Graphene nanoribbons: A new path to spintronics
Practical plasmonic crystal biosensors
Overcoming nanocrystals’ resistance to doping
Why doping strengthens grain boundaries
A random walk along an interface
Building a chemical tool box
Solving plasma puzzles : : Numerical simulations are revealing the origins of strange phenomena that occur in the most complex state of matter
Understanding magnetic explosions
Modeling microturbulence in fusion plasmas
Surfing the plasma waves : : Simulations are helping physicists understand how to optimize the beams in laser wakefield particle accelerators
The birth and death of stars : : For understanding the history of the Universe, supercomputers are now as necessary as telescopes
High-mass star formation
A star is born
From soundwaves to supernovae
Calibrating cosmology
Nobel Prize for Physics leads list of honors for NERSC users in 2006
THE NERSC CENTER
Horst Simon steps down as NERSC Director
Science-Driven Systems : : Introducing and deploying the best new technologies for complete computational systems
Cray provides the next major NERSC system
BVSS and PERCU: A comprehensive approach to HPC procurement
NERSC Global Filesystem marks first full year in production
Integrating NERSC’s storage and file systems
OSF power supply is upgraded
Meeting security challenges and sharing expertise
Science-Driven Services : : Enabling a broad range of scientists to use NERSC systems productively in their research
NERSC marks fourth year of INCITE applications
Making shared resources easy to use
Depositing a slice of the Universe
Survey gauges user satisfaction
Science-Driven Analytics : : Extracting scientific meaning from massive quantities of data
Building the analytics infrastructure
Query-driven visualization: A case study
Leadership in Science-Driven Computing : : Helping shape the future of high performance computing
Developing metrics for petascale facilities
Software roadmap to plug and play petaflop/s
The software challenges of petascale computing
The Berkeley view of the landscape of parallel computing research
Performance and potential of Cell processor analyzed
Integrated Performance Monitoring tool adopted by other HPC centers
Reducing the red tape in research partnerships
Appendices
Appendix A: NERSC Policy Board
Appendix B: NERSC Client Statistics
Appendix C: NERSC Users Group Executive Committee
Appendix D: Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Appendix E: Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee
Appendix F: Acronyms and Abbreviations