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Computational Science and Engineering will use Yahoo!’s cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale research

Yahoo! today announced that it has expanded its partnerships with top U.S. universities to advance cloud computing research. The University of California at Berkeley, Cornell University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst will join Carnegie Mellon University in using Yahoo!’s cloud computing cluster to conduct large-scale systems software research and explore new applications that analyze Internet-scale data sets, ranging from voting records to online news sources.

At Berkeley the Computational Science and Engineering program anticipates that the Yahoo! cluster will be used by a broad array of faculty investigators and graduate students from social scientists and economists to astrophysicist and Bioengineers. Obviously, an exciting aspect of this work will be working with Yahoo! to analyze large scale social-economical-political data by our faculty and to further refine these target areas, and to identify new ones among the vast array of potential computational research avenues at UC Berkeley and LBNL. The breadth of this enterprise promises to create extensive new applications of interest to Yahoo! for high performance and cloud computing.

Registration is now open for the Joint NERSC/OLCF/NICS Cray XT5 Workshop to be held February 1-3, 2010 in Berkeley, CA.

*Joint NERSC/OLCF/NICS Cray XT5 Workshop*
February 1-3, 2010
Sutardja Dai Hall
Room 250
University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Web Site: http://www.nersc.gov/CrayXTWorkshop/
Registration Fee: $50
Workshop Capacity: 40

The Joint Cray XT5 Workshop is designed to provide an in-depth introduction
to using the world's newest and largest Cray XT5 systems. Representatives
and staff from the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, the

CITRIS Seed Funding; Deadline Jan 15, 2010.

CITRIS is pleased to announce a new round of seed funding for FY 2010.
It is open to all CITRIS investigators in UC Berkeley, Davis, Merced,
and Santa Cruz. Seed funding supports high-risk/high-impact projects
that are distinctive and novel in their approach and have potential to
attract larger scale grants. We are seeking innovative proposals in all
areas of interest to CITRIS, including Energy and the Environment,
Delivery of Healthcare, Intelligent Infrastructures, Technology for

Joint NERSC/OLCF/NICS Cray XT5 Workshop

February 1-3, 2010, Berkeley, CA

The Joint Cray XT5 Workshop is designed to provide an in-depth
introduction to using the world's newest and largest Cray XT5 systems.
Representatives and staff from the National Energy Research Scientific
Computing Center, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, the
National Institute for Computational Science, Cray, and AMD will explain
how to use XT5 systems productively. The workshop is aimed at both new
and intermediate users of the Cray XT5.

NSF Supports UC Berkeley in Taming the Data Deluge in Astronomy

A multidisciplinary group from UC Berkeley have been awarded a $1,573,550 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to tackle new challenges confronting astronomers who study the dynamic and variable sky. The grant, lasting 3 years, is part of a new Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) initiative designed "to create revolutionary science and engineering research outcomes made possible by innovations and advances in computational thinking."  

First Full-Scale Simulation of Cat-Size Cortex is a Gordon Bell Prize Winner

NERSC Invites Users to Participate in Magellan Cloud

November 19, 2009

Berkeley Lab Contact: Linda Vu, lvu@lbl.gov, 510-495-2402

NERSC Invites Users to Participate in Magellan Cloud

NERSC is inviting users to explore the effectiveness of scientific cloud
computing with the Magellan testbed, which will be available in early
2010. The Magellan hardware
<http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/systems/magellan/> will consist of 1,440
Intel Nehalem quad-core processors (5,760 cores total). Users can fill
out a form <http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/accounts/magellan.php> to
indicate their interest.

An initial list of cloud computing investigations includes:

Postdoctoral Fellowship at UC Berkeley in Time-domain Science

A postdoctoral position is available at the University of California, Berkeley for an individual who can lead
an effort in real-time classification of astronomical time-series data for the purpose of extraction of novel
science. The project is sponsored by a new Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) grant from
the National Science Foundation (NSF; http://128.150.4.107/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0941742).

 

For more information see attachment

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Selects IBM Technology to Power Cloud Computing Research

*November 16, 2009 *

http://www.lbl.gov/cs/Archive/news111609.html

*Berkeley Lab Contact: Jon Bashor, jbashor@lbl.gov
, 510-501-2230*
*IBM Contact: Joanna Brewer, jmbrewer@us.ibm.com
, 415-971-2777*

*Armonk, NY and Berkeley, CA —* IBM and the Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) announced today that an IBM System x iDataPlex
server will run the Lab's program to explore how cloud computing can be
used to advance scientific discovery.

Job Openings at LBL

Mathematical Programmer/Analyst
http://jobs.lbl.gov/LBNLCareers/details.asp?jid=23669&p=1

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Software Developer
http://jobs.lbl.gov/LBNLCareers/details.asp?jid=23602&p=1