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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

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Source: LLNL Computing

Workshop features finite element advances and applications

Five years strong, the MFEM workshop fosters connection and collaboration among the computational math community.

Computational Math | Computational Science | Discrete Mathematics | Events | Exascale | HPC Systems and Software | Open-Source Software | PDE Methods | Software Libraries

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Source: LLNL News

LLNL ranked among Glassdoor’s Best-Led Companies of 2025

LLNL has been recognized for the second year as one of Glassdoor’s Best-Led Companies in the United States, earning the No. 32 spot out of 50 on the 2025 list.

Awards | Careers

Highlights

Featured Employee
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Sunshine Balingit

Information System Security Officer Sunshine Balingit merges her love of helping people with her expertise in cyber security to protect LLNL’s HPC systems and the work of Laboratory scientists.

Featured Project
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zfp

zfp is an open-source C/C++ library for compressed floating-point and integer arrays that support high throughput read and write random access.

Featured Event
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Join us at SC25

Lawrence Livermore heads to the 37th annual Supercomputing Conference throughout November 16–21. Follow @Livermore_Comp and @NatLabsHPC on X with the hashtags #LLNLatSC and #SC25.

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.