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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LLNL, IBM win SC20 ‘Test of Time’ for Blue Gene/L
A team of current and former LLNL and IBM scientists won the annual “Test of Time” award at the 2020 Supercomputing Conference on November 19 for a paper outlining LLNL’s Blue Gene/L supercomputer.
Source: LLNL News
Model for COVID-19 drug discovery a Gordon Bell finalist
A machine learning model developed by a team of LLNL scientists to aid in COVID-19 drug discovery efforts is a finalist for the Gordon Bell Special Prize for HPC-Based COVID-19 Research.
Source: Science & Technology Review
The Sierra era
The latest issue of LLNL's Science & Technology Review magazine highlights the work already accomplished with the Sierra supercomputer and what's to come.
Computational Science HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous
Source: The Next Platform
Blazing the trail for exascale storage
LLNL is home to advanced tech at the high end of compute, networking, and storage. The article includes a video featuring Robin Goldstone, HPC strategist in the Lab's Advanced Technologies Office.
HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Storage, File Systems, and I/O
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Lab stands tall on bi-annual list of Top500 supercomputers
LLNL can lay claim to housing 4 of the world’s 100 most powerful supercomputers, more than any other institution according to the TOP500 List announced during SC20.
HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous
Source: YouTube.com
Video: Predictive biology for COVID-19 response
At the 2020 LLNL Computing Expo, Jim Brase outlined the Lab’s predictive biology efforts for new therapeutics, HPC capabilities, and making those resources available to researchers.
Source: YouTube.com
Video: An introduction to Girls Who Code
At the 2020 LLNL Computing Virtual Expo, Marisa Torres described the Girls Who Code program’s activities, how it's closing the technology gender gap, and ways to get involved.
Source: YouTube.com
Video: An introduction to open source software
Computer engineer Ian Lee describes the Lab’s OSS community, activities, and policies. This talk was recorded for the 2020 LLNL Computing Virtual Expo.
Source: LLNL News
DOE announces five new energy projects at LLNL
LLNL will collaborate with Machina Labs to apply ML to aluminum sheet metal processing for aerospace and automotive applications. Five recently announced LLNL-led projects will be funded by HPC4EI.
Source: The Next Platform
What put LLNL at the center of U.S. supercomputing in 2020?
The Next Platform's Nicole Hemsoth writes that LLNL's addition of new hardware kept us at the front of the supercomputing news cycle throughout most of the year.
Emerging Architectures HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
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LLNL welcomes 'Ruby' supercomputer for national nuclear security mission and COVID-19 research
Ruby, a 6 petaFLOP cluster, will be used for in support of the NNSA’s stockpile stewardship mission, open science, and the search for therapeutic drugs and designer antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.
Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
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Department of Energy to showcase scientific computational expertise at SC20
The scientific computing and networking leadership of 17 DOE national labs will be showcased at SC20, taking place Nov. 9-19 for the first time via a completely virtual format.
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Women’s math association names Woodward a Fellow
The Association for Women in Mathematics has named computational scientist Carol Woodward as a 2021 fellow, recognizing her commitment to supporting and advancing women in the mathematical sciences.
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Mammoth computing cluster to aid COVID research
Funded by the CARES Act, LLNL's new computing cluster, Mammoth, will be used to perform genomics analysis, nontraditional simulations, and graph analytics required by scientists working on COVID-19s.
Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
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Computing trio wins Best Paper Award at OpenMP Workshop
A team of LLNL computer scientists and a collaborator from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) won the Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP) 2020 in September.
Awards Compiler Technology HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software Programming Languages and Models
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Looking ahead to SC20: more than HPC
LLNL’s Computing Directorate heads to the 32nd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20) held virtually on November 9–19. Although the format is different this year, we’re turning out in full force.
Data Science Emerging Architectures Events HPC Systems and Software Outreach Scientific Visualization Students
Source: LLNL News
Girls persevere for STEM in virtual conference
More than 150 girls participated in the San Joaquin Expanding Your Horizons (SJEYH) conference via Zoom last month. LLNL Computing staff were among the online speakers.
Source: LLNL Computing
SC20 event calendar
LLNL participates in the 32nd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20) held virtually on November 9–19, 2020.
Data Science Emerging Architectures Events HPC Systems and Software
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AI gets a boost via LLNL, SambaNova collaboration
LLNL has installed a new AI accelerator into the Corona supercomputer, allowing researchers to run simulations while offloading AI calculations from those simulations to the AI system.
AI/ML CogSim/AI/ML Hardware Data Science Emerging Architectures HPC Systems and Software
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Video: Build all the things with Spack
LLNL computer scientist and Spack PI Todd Gamblin explains how the package manager works in this video from CppCon (C++ Conference). The video runs 6:53.
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Source: Exascale Computing Project
Celebrate exascale computing on October 18
LLNL will celebrate the second annual Exascale Day on October 18 with the DOE's Exascale Computing Project, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Argonne, and Oak Ridge.
Source: HPCwire
LLNL, ANL and GSK provide early glimpse into Cerebras AI system performance
Livermore Computing's CTO Bronis de Supinski discusses the Lab's early work with, and vision for, the Cerebras-Lassen hardware integration.
CogSim/AI/ML Hardware Data Science Emerging Architectures Scientific ML
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Corona supercomputer gets funding for COVID-19 work
Funding by the CARES Act enabled LLNL and industry partners to more than double the speed of the Corona supercomputing cluster to in excess of 11 petaFLOPS of peak performance.
Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
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LLNL team solves 100-year-old metallurgy puzzle
To solve a 100-year puzzle in metallurgy about why single crystals show staged hardening while others don’t, LLNL scientists performed atomistic simulations at the limits of supercomputing.
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LLNL to provide supercomputing resources to universities selected by NNSA ASC program
LLNL will provide significant computing resources to students and faculty from 9 universities that were newly selected for participation in the Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program (PSAAP).