The High Performance Computing Research Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory conducts research and development in mathematical modeling, algorithm design, software implementation, and system architectures. We collaborate directly with scientists, in fields ranging from materals sciences to climate modeling to astrophysics, to solve computational and data management problems. We also create visualizations to help scientists gain new physical insights and make the data more comprehensible.

The department consists of seven groups:

The Applied Numerical Algorithms group develops advanced numerical algorithms and software for partial differential equations.

The Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering (CCSE) develops and applies advanced computational methodologies to solve large-scale scientific and engineering problems.

The Future Technologies Group performs research and development on infrastructure for scientific computing.

The Mathematics Group centers their research on the development of numerical and analytical methods and their application to challenging, difficult problems in physics and engineering.

The Scientific Computing Group works on diverse scientific applications as well as generic problems in scientific computing.

The Scientific Data Management Group develops tools for efficient access and storage management of massive scientific data sets.

The Visualization Group collaborates with scientists by applying and developing state-of-the-art practices in scientific visualization.

Department Head: Juan Meza