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End-to-End Network Tuning Sends Data Screaming from NERSC to NOAA

Earlier this year, NERSC and ESnet staff helped NOAA's Gary Bates transfer 170 terabytes of data from NERSC in Oakland, Ca back to NOAA in Boulder, Co at a whopping rate of 395 megabytes per second for a weather forecasting project. » Read More

“Flying Through the Known Universe” Screens at 3D Film Festival

A 3D movie flight through hundreds of thousands of galaxies at considerably faster than the speed of light has its world-premiere screening at the 3D Film Festival in Los Angeles,Ca. The festival begins on Sept. 20. » Read More

Now Accepting Applications for Alvarez Fellowship!

Apply now for the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Science, sponsored by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Computing Sciences Directorate. The successful applicant will receive a competitive salary and excellent benefits. » Read More

Supernovae of the Same Brightness, Cut From Different Cosmic Cloth

The Palomar Transient Factory team presented historic observations of a rare Type 1a supernova progenitor system in an August issue of Science. The event was initially detected by the PTF Real-Time Detection pipeline at NERSC. » Read More

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A small sample of massively parallel scientific computing jobs running right now at NERSC.

Project Machine CPU Cores CPU Core Hours Used
Petascale Kinetic Simulations in Laboratory and Space Plasmas
 PI: Homa Karimabadi, University of California San Diego
Hopper 49,152
Sampling diffusive dynamics on long timescales, and simulating the coupled dynamics of electrons and nuclei
 PI: Thomas F. Miller, California Institute of Technology
Hopper 19,200
Turbulence over complex terrain: a wind energy perspective
 PI: Edward Patton, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Hopper 16,392
Doping bottleneck, van der Waals interaction, and novel ordered alloy
 PI: Suhuai Wei, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Carver 256
NERSC Staff Accounts
 PI: Katherine A. Yelick, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - NERSC
Carver 256

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