A UT Austin-based fellow blends physics and advanced computing to reveal cosmic rays’ role in stellar events.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Computation across chemistry
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’
A Vanderbilt University fellowship recipient applies math, physics and computation to sort out semiconductor defects.
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Super-connected HPC
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
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
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
A Berkeley Lab-Northwestern University team follows fish movements to build energy-efficiency algorithms.
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Materials cookbook
A Berkeley Lab project computes a range of materials properties and boosts the development of new technologies.
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Nanogeometry
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
The AnalyzeThis system deals with the rush of huge data-analysis orders typical in scientific computing.
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Noisy universe
Berkeley Lab cosmologists sift tsunamis of data for signals from the birth of galaxies.
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Rewinding the universe
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
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
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
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.
Nanostructural problem-solvers
Computation ferrets out emergent behaviors of novel materials built from tiny blocks.