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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ISC21 event calendar
LLNL participates in the digital ISC High Performance Conference (ISC21) on June 24 through July 2.
Events HPC Systems and Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Software Build and Installation
Source: YouTube
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
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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.
Source: Department of Energy
DOE blog celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
The Department of Energy recently published a blog post celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, featuring LLNL Computing employee Jeene Villanueva.
Source: Data Science Institute
Video: DSI virtual seminar series debuts on YouTube
The Data Science Institute's seminar series has transitioned to a virtual format, and a playlist of recently recorded seminars is available on the Livermore Lab Events YouTube channel.
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Conference papers highlight importance of data security to machine learning
The 2021 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, the premier conference of its kind, will feature two papers co-authored by an LLNL researcher targeted at improving the understanding of robust machine learning models.
AI/ML Computational Math Computer Vision Data Science Deep Learning ML Theory
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Advanced Data Analytics for Proliferation Detection shares technical advances during two-day meeting
The ADAPD program held a two-day virtual meeting to highlight science-based and data-driven analysis work to advance AI innovation and develop AI-enabled systems to enhance the U.S. capability to detect nuclear proliferation activities around the globe.
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Video: The U.S. Exascale Computing Project
In a talk recorded for the 2020 LLNL Computing Virtual Expo, Computing principal deputy associate director and ECP deputy director Lori Diachin describes the ECP’s goals and the Laboratory's role.
Co-Design HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Outreach
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A winning strategy for deep neural networks
New research debuting at ICLR 2021 demonstrates a learning-by-compressing approach to deep learning that outperforms traditional methods without sacrificing accuracy.
AI/ML Computational Math Data Science Deep Learning ML Theory Scientific ML
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LLNL, IBM and Red Hat joining forces to explore standardized HPC resource management interface
LLNL, IBM and Red Hat are combining forces to develop best practices for interfacing HPC schedulers and cloud orchestrators, an effort designed to prepare for emerging supercomputers that take advantage of cloud technologies.
HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software Resource and Workflow Management
Source: Krell Institute
Lawrence Livermore computational scientist is 2021 Corones Award honoree
Jeffrey A.F. Hittinger, a computational scientist at LLNL, is the 2021 recipient of the James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building and Communication from the Krell Institute.
Source: LLNL News
Lab offers forum on machine learning for industry
LLNL is looking for participants and attendees from industry, research institutions and academia for the first-ever Machine Learning for Industry Forum (ML4I), a three-day virtual event starting Aug. 10. The event is sponsored by LLNL’s High Performance Computing Innovation Center and the Data Science Institute.
AI/ML Data Science Events HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
Source: Science & Technology Review
S&TR cover story: The exascale software portfolio
The latest issue of LLNL's Science & Technology Review magazine showcases Computing in the cover story alongside a commentary by Bruce Hendrickson.
Co-Design Computational Math Data Movement and Memory Discrete Mathematics Emerging Architectures HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Open-Source Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Software Applications Software Engineering Software Libraries
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Corona vs coronavirus: AMD and Penguin Computing to upgrade aptly named LLNL supercomputer
LLNL has turned to AMD and Penguin Computing to upgrade a supercomputer to help in the fight against the novel coronavirus. The computer's name is... Corona. The 2018 system, named for the total solar eclipse of 2017, will nearly double in peak performance to 4.5 peak petaflops.
Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 10 | April 2021
Highlights include scalable deep learning, high-order finite elements, data race detection, and reduced order models.
AI/ML Biology/Biomedicine Computational Math Computational Science Data Science Data-Driven Decisions Debugging and Correctness Discrete Mathematics HPC Systems and Software Hydrodynamics Open-Source Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Power Management Programming Languages and Models Solvers Transport
Source: Exascale Computing Project
Hypre Library Brings GPU-Based Algebraic Multigrid to Exascale Supercomputers
The hypre team's latest work gives scientists the ability to efficiently utilize modern GPU-based extreme scale parallel supercomputers to address many scientific problems.
Computational Math HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Open-Source Software Solvers
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De Supinski named one of HPCwire’s People to Watch
The HPC industry publication HPCwire named Bronis R. de Supinski, LLNL’s chief technology officer for Livermore Computing, as one of its People to Watch for 2021.
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LLNL’s Falgout named to 2021 Class of SIAM Fellows
SIAM announced its 2021 Class of Fellows, including LLNL computational mathematician Rob Falgout. Falgout is best known for his development of multigrid methods and for hypre, one of the world’s most popular parallel multigrid codes.
Source: Data Science Institute
Virtual seminar series explores data-driven physical simulations
Led by computational scientist Youngsoo Choi, the Data-Driven Physical Simulation reading group has been meeting biweekly since October 2019. The pandemic almost disbanded the group... until it turned into a virtual seminar series.
AI/ML Computational Science Data Science Data-Driven Decisions Multimedia
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COVID-19 HPC Consortium reflects on past year
COVID-19 HPC Consortium scientists and stakeholders met virtually to mark the consortium’s one-year anniversary, discussing the progress of research projects and the need to pursue a broader organization to mobilize supercomputing access for future crises.
Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science HPC Systems and Software
Source: HPCwire
AI Systems Summit keynote: Brace for system level heterogeneity says de Supinski
In his opening keynote address at the AI Systems Summit, LLNL CTO Bronis de Supinski described integration of two AI-specific systems to achieve system level heterogeneity.
AI/ML CogSim/AI/ML Hardware Data Science Emerging Architectures HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
Source: Supercomputing 2021
Meet six trailblazing women in HPC
In recognition of March as International Women’s History Month, SC21 profiled six women doing trailblazing work, including LLNL's Hiranmayi Ranganathan.
Biology/Biomedicine Careers Computational Science Data Science Diversity HPC Systems and Software
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ATOM Consortium welcomes 3 DOE national labs to accelerate drug discovery
The Accelerating Therapeutics for Opportunities in Medicine consortium, of which LLNL is part, announced the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne, Brookhaven and Oak Ridge national labs are joining the consortium to further develop ATOM’s AI-driven drug discovery platform.
AI/ML Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science Data Science Scientific ML
Source: Data Science Institute
Winter hackathon highlights data science talks and tutorial
The Data Science Institute sponsored LLNL’s 27th hackathon on February 11–12. Organizers offered a deep learning tutorial and presentations showcasing data science techniques.
Source: LLNL News
Research uncovers missing physics in explosive hotspots
Research conducted on the Quartz supercomputer highlights findings made by scientists that reveal a missing aspect of the physics of hotspots in TATB and other explosives.