LLNL Computing’s ground-breaking research and development activities, innovative technologies, and world-class staff are often featured in various media outlets.
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Webinar: You must unlearn what you have learned
LLNL security operations team lead Ian Lee recently gave a webinar describing how the Lab uses Elasticsearch for HPC. The 19:27 video is available on demand.
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Fusion reaction: how AI, HPC are energizing science
A principal investigator at LLNL shares how machine learning on the world’s fastest systems catalyzed the lab’s breakthrough.
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Meet the unflinchingly diverse Tony Baylis
Tony Baylis, LLNL Office of Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Programs director and SC23 inclusivity co-chair, has devoted more than three decades to building partnerships and collaborations that exemplify the tenets of DEI.
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Five Lab teams recognized with Secretary’s Honor Achievement Awards
This year, the DOE honored 44 teams including LLNL's Exascale Computing Facility Modernization Project team for significant power and cooling upgrades to support upcoming exascale supercomputers.
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Science on Saturday lecture series moves to Las Positas College
LLNL's popular lecture series, “Science on Saturday,” runs February 4–25. The February 18 lecture is titled "Supersizing Computing: 70 Years of HPC."
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Register for WiDS Livermore on March 8
Register by February 27 for this free, hybrid Women in Data Science event. Everyone is welcome.
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LLNL’s Doerfert named Better Scientific Software fellow
Computer scientist Johannes Doerfert was recognized as a 2023 BSSw fellow. He plans to use the funding to create videos about best practices for interacting with compilers.
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Lawrence Livermore’s Discovery Center to reopen to visitors
Discovery Center reopens to visitors on Feb. 1, after nearly three years of closure due to COVID-19, featuring renovations and new exhibits.
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Skywing: open-source software aids collaborative autonomy applications
Collaborative autonomy software apps allow networked devices to detect, gather, identify and interpret data; defend against cyber-attacks; and continue to operate despite infiltration.
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Video: Hackathon puts machine learning in the driver’s seat
From our fall 2022 hackathon, watch as participants trained an autonomous race car with reinforcement learning algorithms.
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New HPC4EI project to create 'digital twin' models for aerospace manufacturing
A new collaboration will leverage advanced LLNL-developed software to create a “digital twin” of the near-net shape mill-products system for producing aerospace parts.
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Bronis de Supinski named 2022 ACM fellow
The ACM recognized him for his contributions to the design of large-scale systems and their programming systems and software.
Source: Science & Technology Review
High Performance Storage System: Taking the long view
A multidecade, multi-laboratory collaboration evolves scalable long-term data storage and retrieval solutions to survive the march of time.
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Source: Science & Technology Review
Cognitive simulation supercharges scientific research
Adding machine learning and other artificial intelligence methods to the feedback cycle of experimentation and computer modeling can accelerate scientific discovery.
Source: HPCwire
Supercomputing’s critical role in the fusion ignition breakthrough
High performance computing was key to the December 5 breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility.
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Due credit: Sierra, Jade and HPC’s role in Livermore’s fusion ignition breakthrough
Two supercomputers powered the research of hundreds of scientists at Livermore’s NNSA National Ignition Facility, which recently achieved ignition.
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National Ignition Facility achieves fusion ignition
The major scientific breakthrough decades in the making will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean power.
Source: Sandia National Lab
Sandia, Intel seek novel memory tech to support stockpile mission
ASC’s Advanced Memory Technology research projects are developing technologies that will impact future computer system architectures for complex modeling and simulation workloads.
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Best paper winner improves scientific workflow performance
Combining specialized software tools with heterogeneous HPC hardware requires an intelligent workflow performance optimization strategy.
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ML model instantly predicts polymer properties
LLNL researchers have developed a novel machine learning (ML) model that can predict 10 distinct polymer properties more accurately than was possible with previous ML models.
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LLNL staff returns to Texas-sized Supercomputing Conference
The 2022 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC22) returned to Dallas as a large contingent of LLNL staff participated in sessions, panels, paper presentations and workshops centered around HPC.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 12 | November 2022
Highlights include MFEM community workshops, compiler co-design, HPC standards committees, and AI/ML for national security.
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Researchers win HPCwire award for applying cognitive simulation to inertial confinement fusion
The award recognizes progress in the team's ML-based approach to modeling ICF experiments, which has led to the creation of faster and more accurate models of ICF implosions.
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MFEM workshop showcases application variety and broad impact
The second annual MFEM workshop brought together the project’s global user and developer community for technical talks, Q&A, and more.
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SC22 event calendar
LLNL is participating in the 34th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC22), which will be held both virtually and in Dallas on November 13–18, 2022.
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