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Brian Abrahamson, an IT veteran with experience in the public and private energy sectors, has been named chief information officer for the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Tony Mezzacappa, a leader in the field of computational astrophysics and supernova science, has been named director of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS) at University of Tennessee (UT) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

John Shalf has been appointed chief technology officer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing (NERSC) Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)

GGA Software Services, a provider of outsourced scientific informatics services to the life sciences industry, has announced the appointment of Stephen Yemm as vice president of business development, Europe

David Brown has been named as the new director for the Computational Research Division (CRD) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The US National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) has announced that Jack Wells has been appointed as the organisations new director of science, effective immediately

Theoretical physicist Peter B. Littlewood has been named the new associate laboratory director for Physical Sciences and Engineering at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory

LSI Corporation has appointed Jeff Richardson to the newly-created position of executive vice president and chief operating officer

Bob Worrall has been appointed to the position of chief information officer (CIO) at Nvidia

Sapio Sciences has announced that David Sexton has joined the company as director of consulting