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‘Crazy ideas’

July 2024

A UCSD engineering professor and former DOE CSGF recipient combines curiosity and diverse research experiences to tackle nanoscale questions and energy applications.

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Star treatment

July 2024

A UT Austin-based fellow blends physics and advanced computing to reveal cosmic rays’ role in stellar events.

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Computation across chemistry

June 2024

A fellow uses his deep experience in math and computation to study electric fields in proteins, reactions in batteries and other chemistry problems.

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‘Putting it all together’

May 2024

A Vanderbilt University fellowship recipient applies math, physics and computation to sort out semiconductor defects.

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Fast fade

February 2022

A DOE CSGF recipient studies transients, celestial objects that appear suddenly and rapidly fade.

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Super-connected HPC

March 2021

The superfacility concept links high-performance computing capabilities across multiple scientific locations for scientists in a range of disciplines.

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Efficiency surge

September 2019

A DOE CSGF recipient at the University of Texas took on a hurricane-flooding simulation and blew away limits on its performance.

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Labeling climate

July 2019

A Berkeley Lab team tags dramatic weather events in atmospheric models, then applies supercomputing and deep learning to refine forecasts.

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Swimming lessons

September 2018

A Berkeley Lab-Northwestern University team follows fish movements to build energy-efficiency algorithms.

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Materials cookbook

June 2017

A Berkeley Lab project computes a range of materials properties and boosts the development of new technologies.

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Nanogeometry

December 2016

With a boost from the Titan supercomputer, a Berkeley Lab group works the angles on X-rays to analyze thin films of interest for the next generation of nanodevices.

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Analysis restaurant

November 2015

The AnalyzeThis system deals with the rush of huge data-analysis orders typical in scientific computing.

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Noisy universe

September 2015

Berkeley Lab cosmologists sift tsunamis of data for signals from the birth of galaxies.

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After the thaw

February 2014

Simulations of melting permafrost promise changes in climate modeling.

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Rewinding the universe

December 2013

Dark energy propels the universe to expand faster and faster. Researchers are using simulations to test different conceptions about how this happens.

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Filling in the blanks

November 2012

To prevent important information from being missed, a Berkeley Lab team is improving how supercomputers divvy up the ponderous tasks surrounding large simulations’ analytics and visualization.

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Power boost

January 2012

Berkeley scientists have combined computational modeling and advanced materials synthesis to devise a low-cost anode that bolsters the feasibility of long-life lithium-ion batteries.

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Helping hydrogen along

October 2011

Researchers have pursued clean hydrogen-based fuels for years. A Berkeley Lab team hopes to spur that quest with help from one of the world’s most powerful computers.

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Nanostructural problem-solvers

December 2009

Computation ferrets out emergent behaviors of novel materials built from tiny blocks.

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