50th Anniversary Edition: NERSC User Group Annual Meeting

The 50th-anniversary edition of the NERSC User Group Annual Meeting celebrated the center's storied past and looked to a bright future. The meeting was held October 22-24, 2024 in Berkeley, Califor...

AI’s computing gap: academics lack access to powerful chips needed for research

Nature - Survey highlights disparity between academic and industry scientists’ access to computing power needed to train machine-learning models.

Latest findings from the South Pole Telescope bolster our model of the universe

Analysis of cosmic microwave background reinforces Hubble constant measurement

Scientists Calculate Predictions for Meson Measurements

Theorists' calculate charge distributions in mesons, validate method for imaging building blocks of matter

Imaging Nuclear Shapes by Smashing them to Smithereens

Scientists use high-energy heavy ion collisions as a new tool to reveal subtleties of nuclear structure with implications for many areas of physics.

NERSC Marks 50 Years of Accelerating Science - HPCwire

Oct. 24, 2024 — When the high performance computing (HPC) center, now known as the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), was founded in 1974, President Richard Nixon was on...

New AI models of plasma heating lead to important corrections in computer code used for fusion...

New artificial intelligence models for plasma heating can do more than was previously thought possible, not only increasing the prediction speed 10 million times while preserving accuracy but also...

Ice-Cold Plasma Electron Beams Prepare to Power Future Hard X-ray Laser Beams

Scientists chart a path to sub-femtosecond hard X-ray Free-Electron-Laser pulses powered by compact plasma-based accelerators.

New Mechanism Explains Rapid Energy Sharing Across Atomic Semiconductor Junctions

Electron transfer between atomically thin materials triggers the ultrafast release of heat.

New Computer Simulations Help Scientists Advance Energy-Efficient Microelectronics

Cloud as Stumbling Block for the Propagation of the Southern Annular Mode

Cloud and its radiative effect are among the determining processes for the energy balance of the global climate; they are also the most challenging processes for the climate models to simulate.

Computing-Driven Medicine: Sleeping Better with HPC - HPCwire

As a senior undergraduate student at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., Ifrah Khurram’s calculus professor, Dr. Sanjukta Hota, encouraged her to apply for the Sustainable Research Pathways Program...