Sam Welborn | Postdoctoral Fellow
The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

Sam Welborn earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in the study of synthesis and processing relationships of nanomaterials using X-ray scattering techniques. He is a NESAP for Data postdoctoral fellow in the Data Science Engagement Group at NERSC. Sam engages with both the Advanced Light Source and the National Center for Electron Microscopy at Berkeley Lab. The focus of these collaborations is to enable streaming from beamlines for real-time processing on NERSC compute nodes.

Appearances:

Day 1: 15th October @ 14:20

Turbocharging an electron microscope with supercomputing power

Scientific workflows often require real-time data processing to enable time-sensitive decision-making. In this presentation, we will discuss how we connected two world-class scientific facilities: the supercomputing infrastructure at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and one of the world’s fastest electron microscope detectors at The Molecular Foundry. This combination enables seamless, high-throughput data processing during the experiment, accelerating time-to-science.

Sam Welborn, Postdoctoral Fellow, The National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center

last published: 12/Sep/25 17:45 GMT

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