{"id":6632,"date":"2014-10-23T09:33:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=6632"},"modified":"2014-10-23T09:33:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:33:36","slug":"supercomputing-and-the-nobel-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/uctv\/supercomputing-and-the-nobel-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputing and the Nobel Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/28606\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/\/thumbnails\/28606.jpg\" alt=\"8232\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Sometimes research worthy of the Nobel prize requires NERSC. <\/p>\n<p><em>NERSC?<\/em> &#8212;  National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. It&#8217;s home to extremely powerful, extremely fast and extremely accurate computing and just turned 40. They celebrated the anniversary with a look at the research behind four Nobel Prizes: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>George Smoot, UC Berkeley &#8211; 2006 Nobel Prize for Physics<br \/>\n<strong>Cosmic microwave background radiation <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley &#8211; 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics<br \/>\n<strong>The expanding universe<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Martin Karplus, Harvard &#8211; 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry<br \/>\n<strong>The courses of chemical reactions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Warren Washington, National Center for Atmospheric Research  &#8211; 2007 Nobel Peace Prize to the Intergovernmental<strong><br \/>\nPanel on Climate Change; Man-made climate change<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does it take to be called a supercomputer? Edison, the newest computer at NERSC, boasts 322 terabytes of memory, 124,608 processing cores, 462 terabytes per second of global memory bandwidth, 11 terabytes per second bisection bandwidth, and 7.56 petabytes of disk storage. That&#8217;s a lot of computer!<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/28606\">A Perspective on Biology<\/a> featuring John Kuriyan from Martin Karplus&#8217; team as he describes the research that led to the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes research worthy of the Nobel prize requires NERSC. NERSC? &#8212; National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. It&#8217;s home to extremely powerful, extremely fast and extremely accurate computing and just turned 40. They celebrated the anniversary with a look at the research behind four Nobel Prizes: George Smoot, UC Berkeley &#8211; 2006 Nobel Prize for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}