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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Open-source software community welcomes virtual internships
This summer, the Computing Scholar Program welcomed 160 undergraduate and graduate students into virtual internships. The Lab’s open-source community was already primed for student participation.
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Summit on Summit, Sierra, and Perlmutter hits second anniversary
When it comes to solving complex technical issues for GPU-accelerated supercomputers, the national labs have found that tackling them is “better together.”
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Video: How are we fighting cancer with 3D bioprinting?
LLNL pairs 3D-printed human brain vasculature with computational flow simulations to understand tumor cell attachment to blood vessels, a step in secondary tumor formation during cancer metastasis.
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GHC20: 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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Podcast: Spack package manager on Floss for Science
An interview with Todd Gamblin from the LLNL about the Spack project, discussing his current research project along with his involvement in Spack.
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Research team pairs 3D bioprinting and computer modeling to examine cancer spread in blood vessels
LLNL and Duke University combined 3D bioprinting and computational flow models to analyze the physics behind circulating tumor cell behavior and the cells’ attachment to the vascular endothelium.
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Our 25th hackathon was a virtual success
Computing’s summer hackathon was held virtually on August 6–7 and featured presentations from teams who tested software technologies, expanded project features, or explored new ways of analyzing data.
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Developer Day goes virtual
Computing’s fourth annual Developer Day was held as a virtual event on July 30 with 8 speakers and 90 participants.
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LLNL pairs world’s largest computer chip from Cerebras with Lassen
LLNL and Cerebras Systems have installed the company’s AI computer into Lassen, making LLNL the first institution to integrate the cutting-edge AI platform with a supercomputer.
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Podcast: ECP leaders discuss highlights, challenges, and exascale impacts
Members of the leadership team of the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project cover the state of the project on the "Let's Talk Exascale" podcast. Episode 72 runs 1:26:54 and includes a transcript.
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Video: Flux Framework featured on Next Platform TV
LLNL computer scientist Stephen Herbein discusses the open-source Flux Framework HPC software on this video episode of Next Platform TV. His segment begins at 27:34.
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Lab team completes highest-ever resolution quake simulations using Sierra supercomputer
An LLNL team has published new simulations of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake on the Hayward Fault—the highest-ever resolution ground motion simulations from such an event on this scale.
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Using models, 3D printing to study common heart defect
LLNL researchers and collaborators have combined machine learning, 3D printing, and HPC simulations to accurately model blood flow in the aorta.
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Resiliency in computer applications
In this issue featuring LLNL's R&D 100 Award winners from 2019, the versatile Scalable Checkpoint/Restart framework offers more reliable simulation performance.
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Software installation simplified
In this issue featuring LLNL's R&D 100 Award winners from 2019, software deployment is faster and easier with the Spack package management tool.
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Video: Advancing healthcare with data science
This video provides an overview of LLNL projects in which data scientists work with domain scientists to address major challenges in healthcare.
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Source: Next Platform TV
AI acceleration: a Next Platform TV interview with Ian Karlin and Brian Van Essen
Ian Karlin on AI hardware integration into HPC systems, workflows, followed by a talk about software integration of AI accelerators in HPC with Brian Van Essen.
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LLNL papers accepted into prestigious conference
Two papers featuring LLNL scientists were accepted in the 2020 International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), one of the world’s premier conferences of its kind.
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Lockdown doesn’t hinder annual Data Science Challenge
In this year's Data Science Challenge with UC Merced, 21 students developed machine learning models capable of differentiating potentially explosive materials from other types of molecules.
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Video: MFEM - advanced simulation algorithms for HPC applications
This video describes MFEM (Modular Finite Element Methods), an open-source software library that provides advanced mathematical algorithms for use by scientific applications.
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Manufacturing, Energy Initiative to fund 11 new projects
In the HPC4EI project, LLNL and OxEon Energy will reduce the number of reactor tubes used to convert natural gas to liquid fuel, to lower cost and increase performance of synthetic fuel production.
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Lab breaks ground for exascale facility upgrades
Scheduled for completion in 2022, the project will expand the Livermore Computing Center's power and cooling capacity in preparation for exascale supercomputing hardware.
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Deep learning-based surrogate models outperform simulators and could hasten scientific discoveries
Surrogate models supported by neural networks could lead to new insights in complicated physics problems such as inertial confinement fusion.
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Computing’s partnership with environmental programs at the Lab adds up to environmental stewardship
Computing employees play a critical role in supporting the Environmental Restoration Department; Environment, Safety, and Health; and Radioactive and Hazardous Waste Management.
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Podcast: The MFEM finite element library broadens GPU support
The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations recently released MFEM v4.1, which introduces features important for the nation’s first exascale supercomputers. LLNL's Tzanio Kolev explains.
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