LLNL Computing’s groundbreaking research and development activities, innovative technologies, and world-class staff are often featured in various media outlets.
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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.
Source: Data Science Institute
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.
AI/ML Computational Math Computational Science Data Science Materials Science ML Theory Outreach Scientific ML Scientific Visualization
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DOE-funded project to advance portability of heterogenous 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 heterogenous—the numerical aspects of porting scientific applications to different HPC platforms.
HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Performance, Portability, and Productivity
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.
Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science Data Science HPC Systems and Software
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.
Awards HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software Resource and Workflow Management
Source: YouTube
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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Source: LLNL Computing
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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Source: Data Science Institute
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.
Source: YouTube
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.
Source: LLNL Computing
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.
Careers Events Open-Source Software Software Applications Software Engineering Software Libraries Web Technologies
Source: Science & Technology Review
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.
Computational Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Materials Science
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.
Source: LLNL News
DOE funds 13 new HPC4EI projects
The Department of Energy announced awards of $3.7 million for 13 new High Performance Computing for Energy Innovation (HPC4EI) projects, including a collaboration involving LLNL targeted at improving CO2 conversion.
Source: LLNL Computing
Career panel series kicks off with women in Computing leadership roles
More than 100 LLNL staff and students gathered virtually for the first session of a new career panel series inspired by the annual Women in Data Science conference and sponsored by the Data Science Institute.
Source: LLNL News
New heavy vehicle design increases fuel efficiency, cuts carbon emissions
LLNL engineers have demonstrated that aerodynamically integrated vehicle shapes decrease body-axis drag in a crosswind, creating large negative front pressures that effectively “pull” the vehicle forward against the wind, much like a sailboat.
Source: LLNL News
New research proves quantum computing errors correlated, ties them to cosmic rays
In experiments performed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, researchers found that fluctuations in the electrical charge of multiple quantum bits (qubits) can be highly correlated. The team also linked tiny error-causing perturbations in the qubits’ charge state to the absorption of cosmic rays.
Source: LLNL News
Virtual LLNL-UC Merced Data Science Challenge tackles asteroid detection though machine learning
Meeting virtually three times per week, 22 UC Merced students engaged with LLNL mentors and peers to address a real-world challenge problem, using machine learning to identify potentially hazardous asteroids that could pose an existential threat to humanity.
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Video: Developing scientific code on the world’s fastest computers at LLNL
Our use of supercomputers is enabled by the codes developed to model and simulate complex physical phenomena on massively parallel architectures.
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Lawrence Livermore team looks at nuclear weapon effects for near-surface detonations
Using the Miranda code and the Ruby supercomputer, an LLNL team has taken a closer look at how nuclear weapon blasts close to the Earth’s surface create complications in their effects and apparent yields.
Source: YouTube
Video: COVID-19 detection and analysis with Nisha Mulakken
On a recent video episode of The Data Standard Podcast, biostatistician Nisha Mulakken discusses the Lawrence Livermore Microbial Detection Array (LLMDA) system, which has detection capability for all variants of SARS-CoV-2.
Source: LLNL Computing
ISC21 event calendar
LLNL participates in the digital ISC High Performance Conference (ISC21) on June 24 through July 2.
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Video: Flux – enabling modern supercomputing workflows
This video describes Flux, an open-source software framework that manages and schedules computing workflows to maximize available resources to run applications faster and more efficiently.
HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software Resource and Workflow Management
Source: LLNL News
LLNL featured as a top STEM workplace by AISES
LLNL was honored by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Winds of Change magazine as one of the Top 50 STEM Workplaces in 2021, as an organization setting the standard for indigenous STEM professionals.