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NewsHDF5 WorkshopA workshop for HDF5 users and developers will be held Jan 20-21 2009 at NERSC. There will be a day of information on HDF5, followed by a day of hands on HDF5 coding and tuning. [MORE] Cosmic Data Analysis at NERSCNERSC will be home to the U.S. Planck team's data analysis operations, adding to the dozen or so Cosmic Microwave Background experiments that use NERSC resources. [MORE] 2009 AwardsDOE has allocated 146.5 million Cray XT4-based hours to NERSC projects, and 14 million hours remain in reserves. On the HPSS side, 40 million Storage Resource Units have been allocated, and 10 million remain in reserve. [MORE] Seven INCITE project have been awarded more than 17 million hours at NERSC. [MORE] Three NEH awards at NERSCThree projects have received awards at NERSC under the NEH/DOE Humanities High Performance Computing program. [MORE] Now ComputingA small sample of computations taking place on NERSC supercomputers right now.
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Science @NERSCThe Fusion Two-StepSimulations elucidate the physics of fast ignitionTo a dance aficionado, the term two-step may refer to the ballroom dance that evolved into the foxtrot, or to country/western dances like the Texas two-step and the Cajun two-step. But in the realm of alternative energy sources, one of the hottest new trends is the two-step fast ignition concept for inertial confinement fusion (ICF). ICF is the process of initiating a nuclear fusion reaction by heating and compressing a fuel target, usually a pellet of deuterium-tritium (DT) ice. If a 10 milligram DT fuel pellet was completely consumed by fusion, it would release energy equivalent to more than half a barrel of oil. [Article] |
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