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Exascale Day video playlist
The DOE's Exascale Computing Project compiled a video playlist for Exascale Day on October 18 (1018).
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LLNL joins Human Vaccines Project to accelerate vaccine development and understanding of immune response
LLNL will lend its expertise in vaccine research—most recently from designing new antibodies and antiviral drugs for COVID-19—and computing resources to the Human Vaccines Project consortium to aid
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Source: R&D World
Flux software wins 2021 R&D 100 Award
The renowned worldwide competition announced the winners of the 2021 R&D 100 Awards, among them LLNL's Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.
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SC21 event calendar
LLNL is participating in the 33rd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC21), which will be held both virtually and in St. Louis on November 14–19, 2021.
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Early access systems at LLNL mark progress toward El Capitan
Though the arrival of the exascale supercomputer El Capitan at LLNL is still almost two years away, teams of code developers are busy working on predecessor systems to ensure critical applications are ready for Day One.
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Powering up: LLNL prepares for exascale with massive energy and water upgrade
To prepare for the exascale El Capitan and the next generation of power-hungry supercomputers, LLNL construction crews and maintenance workers have been working since late 2019 and throughout the pandemic on a $100 million Exascale Computing Facility Modernization project.
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Updated exascale system for earth simulations
A new version of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) is two times faster than its earlier version released in 2018. E3SM2 was released to the broader scientific community in September. The project is supported by the DOE's Office of Science in the Biological and Environmental Research Office.
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Data Science Challenge welcomes UC Riverside
The Center for Applied Scientific Computing and Data Science Institute welcomed a new academic partner to the 2021 Data Science Challenge program: the University of California Riverside campus. The intensive program has run for three years with UC Merced, and it tasks students with addressing a real-world scientific problem using data science techniques.
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GHC21: Grace Hopper Celebration
Many LLNL women and allies attend Grace Hopper Celebration every year to learn, to network, and to be inspired.
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NNSA taps Dell Technologies to provide expanded computing resources for stockpile stewardship
LLNL, in partnership with Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, has awarded a subcontract to Dell Technologies for additional supercomputing systems to support the NNSA's nuclear deterrent mission. The contract will provide at least $40 million for more than 40 petaflops of expanded computing capacity for the NNSA Tri-Labs .
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Video: HPC speeds up computational biology and drug design
Computational biology is using HPC to rapidly design and develop ways to treat cancer and COVID. LLNL researcher Felice Lightstone discusses ATOM (Accelerated Therapeutic Opportunities in Medicine) in this edition of SC21 TV.
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Lab-led effort one of nine DOE-funded data reduction projects
An LLNL-led effort in data compression was one of nine projects recently funded by the DOE for research aimed at shrinking the amount of data needed to advance scientific discovery. Under the project — ComPRESS: Compression and Progressive Retrieval for Exascale Simulations and Sensors — LLNL scientists will seek better understanding of data-compression errors.
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Inaugural industry forum inspires ML community
LLNL held its first-ever Machine Learning for Industry Forum (ML4I) on August 10–12. Co-hosted by the Lab’s High-Performance Computing Innovation Center and Data Science Institute, the virtual event brought together more than 500 attendees from the Department of Energy (DOE) complex, commercial companies, professional societies, and academia.
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DOE-funded project to advance portability of heterogeneous HPC applications
A newly funded project involving co-principal investigator and LLNL computer scientist Ignacio Laguna will examine one of the major challenges as supercomputers become increasingly heterogeneous—the numerical aspects of porting scientific applications to different HPC platforms.
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Source: Science & Technology Review
Latest S&TR issue highlights VisIt
The Livermore-led VisIt visualization and analysis tool has supported scalable, high-quality evaluation of simulation results for over 20 years.
Source: Science & Technology Review
60 years of cancer research
From studying radioactive isotope effects to better understanding cancer metastasis, the Laboratory’s relationship with cancer research endures some 60 years after it began, with historical precedent underpinning exciting new research areas.
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Source: R&D World
Flux software selected among R&D 100 Awards finalists
The renowned worldwide competition announced the finalists for the 2021 R&D 100 Awards, among them LLNL's Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.
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Video: How to Spack a software package
At the AWS/Arm Cloud Hackathon, Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker discuss the essential skills and concepts needed to understand how to create and deploy Spack recipes to build scientific codes.
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Summer hackathon tradition continues virtually
Each new season brings another hackathon, and Computing’s 2021 summer event took place on August 12–13.
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Former interns share insights during career panel
A new career panel series that kicked off in June continued on August 10 with a session featuring former LLNL interns who converted to full-time employment at the Lab. Moderator Mary Silva was joined by panelists from the Computing and Engineering Directorates.
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Podcast: Talking Drupal features developer Shelane French
A new episode of the Talking Drupal podcast features LLNL developer Shelane French, who discussed how Computing uses Drupal and Docksal in the Lab's web environment.
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LLNL/ATOM engagement with Purdue introduces students to drug design modeling
LLNL and Purdue are partnering to speed up drug design using computational tools under the Accelerating Therapeutic Opportunities in Medicine project. LLNL researcher Jonathan Allen mentored students and two teaching assistants, introducing them to computationally driven drug discovery and designing predictive models for drug candidates.
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Dev Day makes the most of virtual format
Held virtually on July 15, our fifth annual Developer Day featured lightning talks, a technical deep dive, “quick takes” on remote-development resources, presentations about career paths, and a career development panel discussion.
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Exascale software lays foundation for discovery of new materials
The Center for Non-Perturbative Studies of Functional Materials under Non-Equilibrium Conditions advances high performance computing software to support novel materials discovery.
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Source: Science in Parallel
Podcast: Jeff Hittinger: leading by example
In this episode (32:00), LLNL's Jeff Hittinger talks about scientific success, leadership, and the tricks he’s cultivated for communicating science to broader audiences through the Livermore Ambassador Lecture series.