Authors: Wei Feinstein, Shawfeng Dong, Gary Jung For almost 20 years, the IT Division’s Scientific Computing Group at Berkeley Lab, also known as HPCS (High Performance Computing Services), has stood out as a national leader and pioneer in high performance computing — essentially defining the … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing Webinar, April 27, 11am-Noon
Join a Science IT webinar on Wednesday April 27th, 11:00am to 12:00pm to learn about the Lab’s Cloud Computing program and how cloud computing can benefit scientific research workflows. Jeff D'Ambrogia, Scientific IT Consultant, will share how to access the cloud program, what services are … [Read more...]
Lawrencium 101 Training March 10
Lawrencium 101 HPC Training Scientific High Performance Computing group provides HPC services to the LBNL community. To help users effectively use the Lawrencium Supercluster, we will give an overview of the Lawrencium supercluster with the following objectives: * Overview of Lawrencium … [Read more...]
Autofocus for X-ray Crystallography: How AutoML Targets Samples at the ALS
Authors: Fengchen Liu, Jordan Jung, Shawfeng Dong, Tin Ho Published on February 10, 2022. Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) frameworks aim to automate tasks so non-experts can take advantage of machine learning on a large scale. There are a vast amount of these frameworks on the … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing for Science at LBL
(Cloudy with a Chance of Science) Authors: Jeff D’Ambrogia, Fengchen Liu, Tin Ho, Shawfeng Dong, Gary Jung Published on January 7, 2022. Credit: Starecat.com In some respects, cloud computing has been around for so long that it seems old hat these days. Gone are the early days at … [Read more...]
Using computation to uncover how Arctic soil microbes respond to the changing climate
By Erica Yee • Date... Look up on a clear night and you might see quite a few of our galaxy’s 100 billion stars. Look down, however, and you’ll be hard pressed to see any of the 10 trillion cells in a single gram of soil. “Soil has amazing amounts of microbial cells,” … [Read more...]
Computing as a laboratory: How Molecular Foundry scientists model at the nanoscale
By Erica Yee • January 29, 2019 The Science IT Profiles series highlights how the Scientific Computing Group supports the work of Berkeley Lab researchers spanning various disciplines. In six of the seven facilities of the Molecular Foundry, scientists at benches or instruments, in lab … [Read more...]
How the Materials Project connects computational and experimental materials science
By Erica Yee • August 2, 2018 The Science IT Profiles series highlights how the Scientific Computing Group supports the work of Berkeley Lab researchers spanning various disciplines. To invent the first commercially viable electric light bulb, Thomas Edison and his assistants tested … [Read more...]
Laboratory Computing: How Molecular Foundry Scientists Model at the Nanoscale
By Gary M Jung on 2019-02-05T17:36:08Z In six of the seven facilities of the Molecular Foundry, scientists at benches or instruments, in lab coats or clean room suits, are hard at work creating and characterizing nanoscale materials. Sandwiched in between those laboratories, however, is a … [Read more...]
High-Energy Nuclear Collisions, Large-Scale Computing Aid Study of Early Universe
By Gary M Jung on 2018-08-29T21:29:54Z ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) is a detector in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) ring designed to investigate quark-gluon plasma, the primitive matter that filled the early universe. Berkeley Lab’s Nuclear Science Division, in partnership with … [Read more...]
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