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InTheLoop

The weekly newsletter for Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

‘Beyond Moore’ Kicks into Gear with Town Hall

CRD's John Shalf welcomes Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and industry attendees to the Microelectronics Town Hall held Friday, August 16 in Wang Hall. (Margie Wylie/Berkeley Lab)
On Friday, a broad cross-section of scientists gathered for a Microelectronics Town Hall. The group, which came from Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley, and industry, met to discuss a range of cross-disciplinary efforts in support of the Lab’s “Beyond Moore’s Law” research initiative. The initiative is part of a broader interagency effort to find new ways to increase computing power that are not tied solely to increasing transistor density.

Sowmya Balasubramanian of ESnet writes a few words about equity in the workplace during last week's IDEA campaign. (Margie Wylie/Berkeley Lab)

Share Your IDEAs About Accountability

Last week, Computing Sciences joined other satellite locations around the lab participating in a call for thoughts on equity, the “e” in Berkeley Lab’s IDEA. CS staff were encouraged to share their thoughts anonymously via a sticky-notes station set up in the lobby of Building 59. Next Wednesday, August 28, the focus will be on accountability. Please share your thoughts (in 10 words or less) on this question: “What is one thing you can do to be accountable for accountability on your team?”
Two CSA Postdocs Make Berkeley Lab SLAM Finals

Two Computing Sciences Area postdocs — Bashir Mohammed and Tess Smidt, both with the Computational Research Division — are among the 12 finalists selected to participate in the 2019 Berkeley Lab SLAM. The SLAM live event will be Thursday, September 19, 2:30-4 p.m. in the Building 50 Auditorium. Winners will be announced on the cafeteria patio at 4:30 p.m. The event will also be live-streamed.

Modeled after the “3 Minute Thesis” and “Grad Slam,” the SLAM is a competition where contestants are challenged to present a compelling three-minute presentation of their research in language appropriate to a non-specialist audience. Competitors are allowed one slide, but no other resources or props.

Demmel Shares SC19 Test of Time Award

James Demmel, a professor of mathematics and computer science at UC Berkeley with a joint appointment in Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division, is co-author on a paper that has been awarded the SC19 Test of Time Award. The SC08 paper, “Benchmarking GPUs to Tune Dense Linear Algebra,” was honored for its first-of-its-kind vision of GPU architectures as a vector machine. Vasily Volkov, now with NVIDIA, was the other co-author.

DisCo Honored with Innovation Award

NERSC staff were part of a collaboration recently honored with an HPC Innovation Excellence Award for their work with Adam Rupe, a NERSC researcher, U.C. Davis Ph.D. student, and creator of DisCo. The physics software can recognize salient features in massive data flows, such as climate models. The award was presented in June by Hyperion Research during the ISC19 meeting.

Congressional Committee Members Visit Lab

On Monday, August 12, members of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology visited Berkeley Lab to learn more about the research conducted here. As part of their visit, Illinois Rep. Bill Foster, and California Representatives Barbara Lee and Jerry McNerney were treated to a tour of the NERSC supercomputing systems by Deborah Bard, group lead for Data Science Engagement at NERSC.

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