LLNL Computing’s ground-breaking research and development activities, innovative technologies, and world-class staff are often featured in various media outlets.
Source: Exascale Computing Project
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.
Source: The Next Platform
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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Source: LLNL News
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.
Source: LLNL News
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.
Source: Science & Technology Review
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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Source: Science & Technology Review
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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Source: YouTube.com
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.
Source: LLNL News
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.
Source: LLNL News
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.
Source: Exascale Computing Project
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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ISC20 event calendar
LLNL participates in the digital ISC High Performance Conference (ISC20) on June 22 to 25.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 9 | June 2020
Highlights include response to the COVID-19 pandemic, high-order matrix-free algorithms, and managing memory spaces.
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Source: The Next Platform
Cooling Magma is a challenge that Lawrence Livermore can take on
LLNL's latest HPC system, aptly nicknamed “Magma," delivers 5.4 petaflops of peak performance crammed into 760 compute nodes.
Source: LLNL News
Lab team studies calibrated AI and DL models to more reliably diagnose and treat disease
A team led by an LLNL computer scientist proposes a deep learning approach aimed at improving the reliability of classifier models for predicting disease types from diagnostic images.
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AI identifies change in microstructure in aging materials
LLNL scientists have taken a step forward in the design of future materials with improved performance by analyzing its microstructure using artificial intelligence.
Source: LLNL News
COVID-19 research goes public through new portal
To help accelerate discovery of therapeutic antibodies or antiviral drugs for SARS-CoV-2, LLNL has launched a searchable data portal to share its COVID-19 research with scientists and the public.
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Source: Data Skeptic
Podcast: Interpretable AI in healthcare
LLNL's Jay Thiagarajan joins the Data Skeptic podcast to discuss his recent paper "Calibrating Healthcare AI: Towards Reliable and Interpretable Deep Predictive Models." The episode runs 35:50.
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Source: Better Scientific Software
Working remotely: the Spack team
Elaine Raybourn interviews LLNL's Todd Gamblin about the Spack project's experience working remotely.
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Lab devises plan to reduce defects in 3D metal printing
Combining computer simulations with ultra-high-speed X-ray imaging, LLNL researchers have discovered a way to reduce defects in parts built through a laser-based metal 3D-printing process.