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Cray Wins $52 Million Supercomputer Contract with NERSC

The NERSC-5 system, to be named "Franklin," will be one of the world's fastest. It will have 19,344 AMD compute CPUs, each with 2 GB of memory per CPU. [MORE]

In support of the NERSC-5 contract Cray Inc. is recruiting two software developers to work at NERSC's Oakland Scientific Facility. One developer will focus on filesystem issues, the other on checkpoint/restart. See Cray Employment.

NERSC 2006 Annual User Survey

The NERSC 2006 Annual User Survey is open.

NERSC and Berkeley Lab Showcase HPC at SC06

NERSC and Berkeley Lab share their expertise via talks, technical papers and demonstrations at SC06. [MORE]

Now Computing

Whispers from Underground

Ghostly geoneutrinos hint at Earth's inner secrets

When an international group of researchers reported the first observation of geologically produced antineutrinos, the geological community responded with enthusiasm. This discovery is expected to lead to better estimates of the abundance and distribution of radioactive elements in the Earth, and of the Earth's overall heat budget.

The geoneutrinos were detected at the Kamioka Liquid Scintillator Anti-Neutrino Detector in Japan, better known as KamLAND. Most of the geoneutrino data produced at KamLAND was stored on the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) at NERSC and analyzed using NERSC's PDSF cluster. Together, these systems allowed scientists to find the scientific equivalent of a whisper at a rock concert.

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