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At a Glance

Discovery science and technical innovation

Computing at LLNL advances scientific discovery through foundational and innovative research; mission-driven data science; complex modeling, simulation, and analysis on powerful supercomputers; and creative technologies and software solutions. Everything at Livermore is Team Science. Thus, Computing is at the heart of many of LLNL’s most compelling national security and scientific efforts:

  • Operating one of the world’s largest HPC data centers
  • Designing AI and machine learning algorithms for science-based pattern discovery
  • Driving advances in simulation, scalable visualization, and data management
  • Providing essential IT expertise across LLNL
  • New simulation technologies and algorithms, such as in design optimization and decision support
  • Computing beyond exascale: heterogeneous, neural, cloud/converged, and quantum
  • Running one of the world’s largest control systems at NIF

Focus Areas

Computational Math

Powering scientific codes with advanced algebraic methods, algorithms, solvers, and discretizations

Computational Science

Supporting the Lab’s mission-driven programs with scientific modeling and simulation

Cyber Security

Meeting the nation’s top priorities to enhance security in a highly interconnected world

Data Science

Advancing AI, data analytics, machine learning, predictive modeling, statistics, UQ, and more

Emerging Architectures

Innovating in new directions for next-generation hardware designs and platform integrations

HPC Systems & Software

Providing environments, tools, and expertise for vital national security research and development

Information Technology

Meeting the Lab’s computer technology needs every day with enterprise applications and services

Software Engineering

Applying best practices to maximize the efficiency of software development and deployment

News

research team on stage accepting the award


Source: LLNL News

LLNL, UT & UCSD win Gordon Bell Prize with exascale tsunami forecasting

Widely viewed as the highest recognition in HPC, the Gordon Bell Prize recognizes innovations that push the limits of computational performance, scalability and scientific impact on pressing real-world problems.

Algorithms at Scale | Awards | Computational Math | Computational Science | Exascale | HPC Systems and Software | PDE Methods

El Capitan and Tuloumne supercomputers


Source: LLNL News

El Capitan retains title as world’s fastest supercomputer on latest Top500 list

El Capitan once again claimed the top spot on the Top500 List of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, announced today at the 2025 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC25) conference in St. Louis.

Awards | Emerging Architectures | Exascale | HPC Architectures | HPC Systems and Software

predictions across different biomolecular complexes by the preview release of OpenFold3


Source: LLNL News

LLNL and partners launch record-breaking protein-folding workflow on world’s fastest supercomputer

Scientists at LLNL and collaborators at AMD and Columbia University have achieved a milestone in biological computing: completing the largest and fastest protein structure prediction workflow ever run, using the full power of El Capitan.

AI/ML | Biology/Biomedicine | Computational Science | Data Science | Exascale | Scientific ML

Highlights

Featured Employee
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Yohann Dudouit

Morphing an interest in simulation into a career in sophisticated software development, Yohann Dudouit helps the Laboratory visualize complex scientific phenomena in the national interest.

Featured Project
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ETHOS

The Enabling Technologies for High-Order Simulations (ETHOS) project performs research of fundamental mathematical technologies for next-generation high-order simulations algorithms.

Featured Research
winning team posed with presenters on the SC25 stage

ACM Gordon Bell Prize

A team of LLNL, UT Austin, and UC San Diego researchers won for their tsunami forecasting digital twin, which ran on El Capitan and used MFEM to achieve the largest known finite element simulation. (Credit: Lillie Elliot, SC Photography.)

Careers

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We offer a promising future of discovery science and technical innovation

From software developers and applied math researchers to hardware architects and networking experts, computing at LLNL requires a top-flight workforce with a broad skill set. Check out our internship pages or visit LLNL's careers site to see how you can be a part of the future.