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August 12, 2015
Bring the universe into your home

Mounted atop the Blanco telescope in Chile, the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) takes very large photos of a very large object: the universe.

August 12, 2015
Simplifying and accelerating genome assembly

Novel algorithms and high-performance computational techniques have simplified and accelerated genome assembly. Scientists from Berkeley Lab have used the Edison supercomputer to reduce a months-long process to mere minutes.

June 10, 2015
Supernova hunting with supercomputers

Astronomers have used US National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) supercomputers to confirm a prediction made in 2010. They found a supernova and a new way of reading the stars.

May 22, 2013
Popping bubbles mathematically

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, US, have mathematically described the stages in the complex formation and disappearance of foamy bubbles. Read about the challenges they faced and the industrial processes their work will impact.

April 24, 2013
Berkeley lab tackles next-generation climate models

Farmers, city planners, and even insurers use climate data to determine risk. To simulate severe weather, climate models are running at increasingly high resolutions that require greater processing speeds. Read about scientists’ steps to keep up with nature’s changing demands.

October 3, 2012
Historic observation of rare type 1a supernova

The first-ever direct observation of a Type 1a supernova progenitor system has been made. The team involved used data that traveled over 400 miles and which was analyzed using sophisticated machine-learning algorithms and high-performance computers.

December 7, 2011
Following the 'red brick road' to data management

For the last 40 years, the way that large-scale services, such as global banks, and scientific experiments, such as the LHC at CERN, have been managing their data has been reminiscent of Lyman Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:there's only one tried-and-tested path, a 'yellow brick road', and it's relational databases. But over the last couple of years, some new, non-relational database models have emerged and may represent the next step in the evolution of data management.