On May 27, 2021, Berkeley Lab and the NERSC dedicated their newest flagship supercomputer — the HPE Cray system, dubbed "Perlmutter" — to support a wide array of science workloads, from simulation to data analysis and artificial intelligence methods. Speakers included Berkeley Lab Director Michael Witherell; David M. Turk, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy; Steve Binkley, Principal Deputy Director of DOE's Office of Science; Jonathan Carter, Berkeley Lab's Associate Director for Computing Sciences; Barbara Helland, Associate Director of the DOE Office of Science’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program; Carol Christ, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley; NERSC Director Sudip Dosanjh; Berkeley Lab Deputy Director for Research Horst Simon, and BIDS Faculty Director Saul Perlmutter, a professor of Physics and the Director of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics at UC Berkeley, and a 2011 Nobel Laureate in Physics.
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Berkeley Lab Deploys Next-Gen Supercomputer, Perlmutter, Bolstering U.S. Scientific Research: New Heterogeneous System Will Support Research in Advanced Computing, AI, Data Science & More
May 27, 2021 | NERSC News