Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences

Over the past decade, an open source code born out of Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division has helped advance the field of cosmology and ready it for the age of exascale computing. . Learn more about the Nyx code: bit.ly/NyxExa . cc: U.S. Department of Energy #BerkeleyLab90 #HPC

Congratulations to Berkeley Lab Computational Cosmology Center (C3) graduate student researcher Sarafina Nance! . She was recently named one of Forbes 30 Inspirational Women. Read more: bit.ly/SNForbes30 .... cc: U.S. Department of Energy UC Berkeley University of California #womeninstem

Making a presentation to a scientifically literate but non-expert audience is one of the most important skills you can develop as a scientist," said David Brown, Director of Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division. . Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences Postdoc Symposium program aims to give participants tips and tools to do just that: bit.ly/CSPS21 .... cc: U.S. Department of Energy #postdoc #berkeleylab90

LISTEN : Berkeley Lab Senior Scientist Michael Wehner talks to Climate Scientists Podcast Host Dan Jones about hurricanes, climate change, extreme weather, and his pathway into science: https://bit.ly/CS_MFW . cc: U.S. Department of Energy #Climate #weather

Warp drive: An open-source supercomputer code called WarpX, developed by Berkeley Lab researchers, simulates laser-made plasmas and presents a path for shrinking particle accelerators. Read more: http://bit.ly/WarpX_LBNL .... cc: Berkeley Lab U.S. Department of Energy #berkeleylab90 #HPC #physics

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Bring your lunch and join us for this exciting Midday Science Cafe on Leveraging the Quantum Realm with UC Berkeley's Sara Mouradian and Berkeley Lab's Kasra Nowrouz. . When: Thursday, Mar 18, 12-1:30 P.M. Pacific. Register: http://bit.ly/MDSCquant... . cc: U.S. Department of Energy University of California #QuantumComputing #quantum

What does the quest for renewable energy and dark fiber have in common? . Researchers at Berkeley Lab's Earth & Environmental Sciences Area, Rice University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) are teaming up to map potential geothermal energy locations in California's Imperial Valley with dark fiber. . Read more: bit.ly/FiberOpticseq... . cc: U.S. Department of Energy #renrewableenergy #darkfiber #science #berkeleylab90

Did you know that our very own Daniela Ushizima was one of 25 Latina scientists recently honored by 3M for innovative research that has addressed key societal challenges? . The Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences researcher was recognized for her role in developing algorithms and software for automated cell analysis. Read more: http://bit.ly/3Mushizima .... cc: U.S. Department of Energy #artificialintelligence #datascience #BerkeleyLab90

Autonomous Discovery: What’s Next in Data Collection for Experimental Research? Berkeley Lab Research Scientist Marcus Noack discusses in a new Q+A: bit.ly/MN_CAMERA . cc: U.S. Department of Energy #AI #machinelearning #DataScience

Quantum materials exhibit a wide range of exotic phenomena and useful properties that could lead to advanced technologies for entertainment, healthcare, and environmental sustainability. . With the emergence of digital quantum computers, scientists now have a path forward for testing and analyzing the remarkable behavior of these materials. Berkeley Lab researchers recently performed the first review of available technology and algorithms; and detailed the myriad ways to rep...resent quantum materials on emerging digital quantum systems. Read their new paper: http://bit.ly/DQClbnl . cc: U.S. Department of Energy #quantum #QuantumComputing UC Berkeley

Modern science depends heavily on computing and computer software. And researchers in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division have decades of experience producing reliable scientific software with contributors from many labs, universities, disciplines, and timezones. . In a new blog post, our experts share some of the lessons they've learned over the years: bit.ly/BSS_lbnl .... cc: U.S. Department of Energy #software #HPC

Quantum information science is, by nature, a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary endeavor. This new group in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division will focus on developing, fabricating, testing, and operating world-class quantum processors. Read more: bit.ly/QUISTcrd . cc: U.S. Department of Energy #QuantumComputing #Hpc #Quantum

Did you know that NERSC hosts a number of paid internships every summer for students? . See all of our open positions for summer 2021: bit.ly/NERSCintern21 .... cc: Berkeley Lab U.S. Department of Energy Berkeley Lab K-12 STEM #STEMJobs

Show your support of Berkeley Lab and our science with a new frame for your Facebook profile! . Here's how! 1. Click on the camera icon over your profile image and select "add frame"... 2. Search for BerkeleyLab90 3. Select the frame . #BerkeleyLab90 U.S. Department of Energy

#VisibleSpectrumSpotlight: Meet Anastasiia Butko, whose computations are used as a tool to answer certain research questions and study new technologies such as supercomputers to one day open the door to the new computing era. Read more: bit.ly/3lsYLHx . cc: Berkeley Lab U.S. Department of Energy #WomenInSTEM #quantum #math

Did you know within galaxies, stars experience acceleration due to some combination of dark matter and stellar density? . Using NERSC supercomputers, Institute for Advanced Study researchers obtained the first direct measurement of the average stellar acceleration in the Milky Way galaxy. This work opens the possibility to eventually understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy on larger scales. Read more: http://bit.ly/SCnersc .... cc: U.S. Department of Energy Berkeley Lab Rochester Institute of Technology #darkmatter #DarkEnergy #hpc

We’ve heard how machine learning is being used for everything from medical diagnostics to self-driving cars. But how does it work and where does it come from? And, more importantly, where is it going to take us next? . Check out this episode of Berkeley Lab's new podcast series: http://bit.ly/MLpodLBNL .... cc: U.S. Department of Energy #machinelearning #ai #berkeleylab90

When two heavy ions collide inside a particle accelerator, they produce a near-perfect fluid through which an assortment of fundamental particles swim. For scientists to accurately simulate even a tiny drop of this hot and dense subatomic brew with a classical computer, it would take longer than the age of the universe. . A collaboration of Berkeley Lab theorists, experimentalists, and computer scientists are exploring how they could crack the mathematics with the help of a ...powerful and emerging tool: quantum computing. Read more: http://bit.ly/SymQP via Symmetry magazine . . cc: U.S. Department of Energy #QuantumComputing #physics #mathematics #math

Congratulations to Berkeley Lab's Costin Iancu and Irfan Siddiqi both are part of a team that won the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering Best Paper Award! . Read more: http://bit.ly/IEEEQuantppr .... cc: IEEE Quantum U.S. Department of Energy #QuantumComputing

This October is the 75th observance of National Disability Employment Awareness Month ( #NDEAM ). . To commemorate this occasion, our directors David Brown and Helen Cademartori - share what NDEAM means to them and how Berkeley Lab has become more accessible over the years: bit.ly/NDEAM20

How did you spend your summer vacation? Under the mentorship of Berkeley Lab Cybersecurity Expert Sean Peisert, these four UC Davis graduate students worked on a method that could allow doctors and researchers to leverage high-quality electronic health data in the battle against COVID-19, while also preserving patient privacy: bit.ly/LBNLinternssp .... cc: U.S. Department of Energy UC Davis College of Engineering UC Davis Electrical and Computer Engineering #COVID19 #cybersecurity

A paper introducing Berkeley Lab's DeePMD-kit is a Gordon Bell Prize finalist! Winners will be announced at SC Conference (SC20) in November. . DeePMD-kit is a new machine-learning-based software package for modeling ab initio molecular dynamics, especially large molecular systems. The authors recently ran this tool on Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Summit supercomputer and demonstrated some exciting and unprecedented capabilities. Read more: http://bit.ly/DeepMD .... cc: Berkeley Lab U.S. Department of Energy

Historically, hard-to-access and non-standardized water data has meant that California water users and public agencies encounter both data redundancies and gaps when trying to make confident, informed decisions. . The California Water Data Consortium hopes to resolve these issues to effectively inform water decision-making at every level of government. And, Berkeley Lab's Deb Agarwal has just been named to their steering committee! bit.ly/DebCWDC . cc: U.S. Department of Energy Berkeley Institute for Data Science - BIDS

It's October 18 10^18 Exascale Day! . And, we are highlighting some of the Berkeley Lab staff that are contributing to the U.S. Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing efforts. Here are some of their stories. . Learn more about #ExascaleDay: https://www.exascaleproject.org/

#ExascaleDay is tomorrow! . The exascale co-design efforts target crosscutting algorithmic methods that capture the most common patterns of computation and communication in exascale applications, known as motifs. The goal is to integrate these motifs with rapidly developing software stacks and emerging hardware technologies to ensure that scientists can fully exploit exascale computers from day one. . Did you know that Berkeley Lab supports three co-design centers? Our rese...archers lead the Block-Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Co-Design Center and partners with other national labs and universities in the ExaGraph and ExaLearn Co-Design Centers. Read more: http://bit.ly/ExaCodesign . Learn more about Exascale Day: https://www.exascaleproject.org/ See more

While many details of exascale computer architectures remain undefined, one thing is certain: Exascale machines will be very different than today’s supercomputers. To deliver 50-100xs today’s supercomputing performance, while keeping energy consumption manageable, vendors need to make aggressive, fundamental changes to processor and machine architectures that scientific codes have relied on for decades. . To anticipate major shifts in hardware, the Design Space Exploration br...ings together vendors with National Lab researchers, including many from Berkeley Lab, to create the tools scientists need to analyze, modify and tune scientific software to exploit exascale architectures more fully. Learn more: http://bit.ly/ExaDSE . Learn more about #ExascaleDay: https://www.exascaleproject.org/ . U.S. Department of Energy

Did you know that the Exascale Computing Project’s (ECP) Application Development groups are creating exascale ready applicationsintegrating them with exascale capable software products and hardware technologiesto ensure that researchers working toward problems of national strategic importance can take advantage of these advanced systems from day one? . Berkeley Lab researchers are leading five ECP application development projects and contributing to six others. Read more: ...http://bit.ly/ExaApps . #ExascaleDay is Sunday, October 18! Learn more about Exascale Day: https://www.exascaleproject.org/ . cc: U.S. Department of Energy

Our #Exascaleday countdown continues! . Did you know that Berkeley Lab computer scientists are leading three projects to develop software technologies for next-generation supercomputers under the Department of Energy’s Exascale Computing Project (ECP)? Additionally, our researchers provide support to four other ECP software projects. .... Learn more: http://bit.ly/ExaSoftware Learn more about Exascale Day: https://www.exascaleproject.org/ See more

Our countdown to Exascale Day (Oct. 18) continues! . Did you know that we are helping scientists prepare for next-generation exascale supercomputers through the NERSC Exascale Science Applications Program (NESAP)? This program brings partners NERSC staff with domain scientists, code teams, vendors, and library and tools developers to adapt existing scientific codes for advanced computing architectures. . Learn more about the NESAP program: http://bit.ly/NESAPpostdocs... Apply to be a NESAP fellow: http://bit.ly/NESAPjob Learn more about Exascale Day: https://www.exascaleproject.org/ . . cc: Berkeley Lab U.S. Department of Energy

In honor of Exascale Day on October 18, we will be highlighting some of our exascale research efforts this week! . From precision medicine to cybersecurity, next-generation exascale computers will have a profound impact on everyday life. With these systems, scientists will be able to quickly analyze massive volumes of data and realistically simulate the complex processes behind the fundamental forces of nature. .... To prepare the nation’s scientific computing community for exascale, Berkeley Lab staff have been developing advanced mathematical models, computational algorithms, large scale scientific codes and computational workflows that accelerate the modeling, simulation, and analysis of complex phenomena in science and engineering. And this week, we’ll be featuring some of the people and projects at the forefront of this work. Learn more about Berkeley Lab’s contribution to exascale computing: https://exascale.lbl.gov/ . Learn about Exascale Day: https://www.exascaleproject.org/ U.S. Department of Energy

Yesterday, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier made history as the first female duo ever to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry! They were recognized for their work on the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing method, which is faster, cheaper, more accurate, and more efficient than other existing methods. . Now, Doudna is building on this work by mining DOE Joint Genome Institute's IMG database, a vast collection of publicly available metagenomic datasets that are hosted at NERSC, t...o improve and refine the process of finding novel Cas genes and CRISPR systems. Read more: http://bit.ly/DoudnaIMG . . cc: UC Berkeley Berkeley Lab U.S. Department of Energy See more

For the first time ever at the Institut Laue-Langevin, self-learning algorithms performed autonomous data analysis during a neutron scattering experiment without any human intervention. . These algorithms were developed by CAMERA researchers in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division (CRD): bit.ly/CAMERAai . .... cc: U.S. Department of Energy #AI #machinelearning