Table of Contents

The Year in Perspective

Research News

The Heat Is On

Burning Questions

Combustion Up Close

Hailstones in Hell

A Perfect Liquid

Whispers from Underground

Breaking Up Is Hard to Calculate

Talent Scouting

Surface Charge

Magnetic Disks in Space

Proteins in Motion

NERSC Users Honored for Scientific Accomplishments

The NERSC Center

Science-Driven Computing

DOE Greenbook Published

NERSC's Five-Year Plan

DOE Review of NERSC

Organizational Changes

Science-Driven Systems

Two New Clusters: Jacquard and Bassi

New Visual Analytics Server: DaVinci

NERSC Global Filesystem

Integrating HPSS into Grids

Bay Area MAN Inaugurated

Another Checkpoint/Restart Milestone

Science-Driven System Architectures

Proposals for New System Evaluated

SC05 Conference Honor

Science-Driven Services

Support for Large-Scale Projects

Archiving Strategies for Genome Researchers

User Survey Provides Valuable Feedback

Science-Driven Analytics

Appendix A: NERSC Policy Board

Appendix B: NERSC Client Statistics

Appendix C: NERSC Users Group Executive Committee

Appendix D: Supercomputing Allocations Committee

Appendix E: Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research

Appendix F: Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee

Appendix G: Acronyms and Abbreviations