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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Stanford professor discusses future of visually intelligent machines and human-AI collaboration
Stanford University professor and AI visionary Fei-Fei Li went beyond technical milestones from her two-decade career into her philosophy of intelligence, ranging from the evolution of vision in the Cambrian Age to modern-day “robot cousins” that can see and assist humans in everyday menial tasks.
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Big Ideas Lab podcast enters the quantum realm
In the current episode of the Big Ideas Lab, dive into the strange new frontier where physics meets information, and reality gets rewritten—qubit by qubit.
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LLNL researchers use AI to look for potential ALS treatments
A team of researchers from LLNL, Stanford University, and UCLA are using AI and machine learning to find potential treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases in the form of drugs prescribed for other conditions.
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DOE Secretary Wright gets up-close look at innovation in action during LLNL visit
Wright’s day-long visit—his first to LLNL since being appointed Energy secretary—included behind-the-scenes tours of some of LLNL’s most advanced facilities and machines, from the National Ignition Facility to El Capitan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
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ISC25 event calendar
LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC24) on June 10–13.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Wright visits LLNL
Wright’s daylong visit included briefings and discussions with LLNL experts in key mission areas including stockpile modernization, fusion energy, AI, cyber security and supercomputing.
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Big Ideas Lab podcast examines how AI Is reshaping science at LLNL
On the latest episode of The Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will get an inside look at this transformation, as LLNL physicists Brian Spears and Kelli Humbird explain how AI is no longer just about chatbots and automating simple tasks.
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Proteus arrives just in time for faster HPC code compilation
A new just-in-time compilation approach leverages LLVM intermediate representation to optimize GPU kernels with portability to any GPU architecture.
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‘STEM Day at the Lab’ enters its 10th year of bringing science to LLNL communities
LLNL STEM Day ignites curiosity and shapes futures, delivering high-quality science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to more than 1,935 students—and the impact keeps growing.
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Distinguished paper offers unique solution for GPU offloading
Research recognized at the HiPC IEEE conference proposes using an optimized version of OpenMP for vendor-agnostic GPU performance, portability, and scalability.
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Dream Day inspires Livermore students to explore STEM careers
More than 50 students from five Livermore middle schools visited LLNL on April 18 for Dream Day, an event filled with hands-on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activities.
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Simulating hot-spot formation in insensitive high explosives
Using the Sierra supercomputer, an LLNL team has made significant progress in understanding how microscopic hot spots form in insensitive high explosives based on TATB.
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ICLR25 acceptances
LLNL researchers have posters and workshop papers accepted to the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations on April 24–28.
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New nucleotide database could improve microbe identification for science and medicine
LLNL researchers have created new, optimized indices of the nt database that simplify how scientists classify microorganisms found in various samples, significantly improving the ability to identify and understand the myriad microorganisms that inhabit our world.
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LLNL scientists use AI to optimize antibodies against mutations and accelerate pandemic preparedness
Researchers from LLNL, in collaboration with other leading institutions, have successfully used an AI-driven platform to preemptively optimize an antibody to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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LLNL employees dive into AI’s transformative potential at aiEDGE for Innovation Day
More than 3,200 LLNL employees participated in the first-ever aiEDGE for Innovation Day on March 26—an event aimed at empowering and equipping the Lab’s workforce to integrate AI into their daily work.
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Tracy students dream big at LLNL’s ‘Dream Day’ event
About two dozen students from Tracy, California, visited LLNL on March 21 for a day of interactive enrichment activities as part of “Dream Day,” an event designed to introduce students to Lab careers and science.
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LLNL scientists take new approach to understanding protein-membrane interactions
A study led by LLNL scientists is providing new insights into the complex interactions between proteins and cell membranes, combining detailed molecular simulations and large-scale models.
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Mapping cosmic shear to illuminate dark energy
In a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journal, LLNL researchers developed an innovative approach to map cosmic shear using linear algebra, statistics, and HPC.
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1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session explores AI-driven scientific discovery
The February 28 event brought together over 1,400 Department of Energy scientists across multiple sites to explore how cutting-edge AI models could transform scientific research.
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Lori Diachin on HPCwire's 2025 People to Watch list
People to Watch are at the forefront of HPC trends, adapting new technology to the rapidly changing world in order to unlock the answers to the biggest societal challenges of our time and make the impossible, possible.
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Enhancing the software ecosystem with LLMs
Over the next three years, CASC researchers and collaborators will integrate LLMs into HPC software to boost performance and sustainability.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 15 | March 2025
Highlights include ML techniques for computed tomography, a scalable Gaussian process framework, safe and trustworthy AI, and autonomous multiscale simulations.
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LLNL to examine exoplanet atmospheres with HPC
LLNL, Arizona State University and Michigan State University will dive deep into uncovering the compositions of 70 exoplanets through the Computing Grand Challenge Program, which allocates significant quantities of institutional computational resources to scientists to perform cutting-edge research.
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S&TR cover story: Introducing El Capitan
The latest issue of LLNL's magazine explains how the world’s most powerful supercomputer helps scientists safeguard the U.S. nuclear stockpile.
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