Information Technology

Berkeley Lab Researchers, Lenny Oliker, John Shalf, and Michael Wehner, propose a new breed of supercomputers, perhaps the most powerful special-purpose computer yet, for improving global climate predictions.

“We think scientific computing is ripe for a change. Instead of getting a big computer and saying, ‘What can we do? we want to do what particle physicists do and say, ‘We want to do this kind of science—what kind of machine do we need to do it?' ” says Michael Wehner, a climatologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Healthcare is a $2 Trillion/year industry which amounts to 16% of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product. These numbers are expected to rapidly rise as the aging baby boomers will continue to increase the elderly age group population (people above 60 years of age) from the current 10% level to the 25% level in 2030. While the advances in hardware and software technologies for healthcare services have been remarkable, networking remains as the main hurdle in delivering much needed modern healthcare services in a timely and cost-effective manner.

SIMI is a proof-of-feasibility project that combines state-of-the-art satellite and radar data image processing with real-time data from ground solar stations in order to determine solar energy availability

It has been estimated that malicious code (viruses, worms, and Trojan horses) have caused over $75 billion in economic losses in the U.S. through 2007. As a result, continuous traffic monitoring and accurate detection of traffic anomalies and attacks are extremely critical for large network operators, as well as for enterprise networks that provide