Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory – SC17

SC16 Invited Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Kristin A. Persson Presents “The Materials Project – A Google of Materials”

brianban — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:37:11 +0000

Short Introduction: This talk will focus on how The Materials Project (www.materialsproject.org) is harnessing the power of supercomputing together with state-of-the-art quantum mechanical theory to compute the properties of all known inorganic materials and beyond, design novel materials and offer the data for free to the community together with online analysis and design algorithms. Invited […]

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ACM Gordon Bell Prize Recognizes Top Accomplishments in Running Science Apps on HPC

brianban — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 07:30:58 +0000

For the first time, SC conference releases a comprehensive list of all Gordon Bell winners since 1987. Here is that historical perspective. Each year at SC, two key indicators of HPC performance are highlighted. Both were created to provide a more accurate measure of overall performance than the theoretical peak performance levels sometimes touted by […]

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SC15 Invited Talk-Dr. Laura Grigori Presents Fast and Robust Communication Avoiding Algorithms: Current Status and Future Prospects

brianban — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 13:53:00 +0000

Left: computation to communication ratio for the LU factorization with partial pivoting of a dense matrix on a model of exascale machine (ISC 2014). Right: preconditioned Krylov solver as used in the map making problem in astrophysics, results obtained on a Cray XE6 machine (Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014). Please click to enlarge. This talk will […]

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SC15 Releases Video on How Berkeley Lab’s Electrolyte Genome Project Could Be Battery Game-Changer

brianban — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:23:00 +0000

A new breakthrough battery—one that has significantly higher energy, lasts longer, and is cheaper and safer—will likely be impossible without a new material discovery. And a new material discovery could take years, if not decades, since trial and error has been the best available approach. But Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) scientist Kristin Persson […]

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1988 Gordon Bell Prize Creates Foundation for Successful HPC Career

brianban — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:51:00 +0000

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Deputy Director Horst Simon still displays the 1988 Gordon Bell Prize he shared in. Behind him is the 2009 Gordon Bell Prize awarded to a team he was a part of. Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt, LBNL. In the foyer of the main building at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a panel displaying […]

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