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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CASC research in ML robustness debuts at AAAI conference
Three papers address feature importance estimation under distribution shifts, attribute-guided adversarial training, and uncertainty matching in graph neural networks.
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Lab makes Glassdoor’s 2021 list of ‘Best Places to Work’
For the third consecutive year, LLNL has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award, recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2021.
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LLNL computer scientist heads award-winning computer vision research
An LLNL-led team developed a new kind of prior—a characterization of the space of natural images—for compressive image recovery that is trained on patches of images instead of full-sized images.
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Scientists tap the power of HPC in a bet to understand cancer growth
A multi-institutional team including LLNL is using Summit, America’s fastest supercomputer, to understand how certain proteins signal body cells to reproduce uncontrollably, triggering cancer.
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LLNL’s de Supinski earns prestigious IEEE Fellowship
IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization, has named Livermore Computing CTO Bronis de Supinski to its 2021 Class of Fellows for his leadership in large-scale computing systems.
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NeurIPS papers aim to improve understanding and robustness of machine learning algorithms
The 34th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems features two papers advancing the reliability of deep learning for mission-critical applications at LLNL.
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Girls Who Code ‘Big’ program goes virtual
The first-ever virtual Girls Who Code – "Big" program (a collaboration between LLNL, the Livermore Lab Foundation, and the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District) recently wrapped up.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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LLNL welcomes Ruby supercomputer for national nuclear security mission, COVID-19 research
Ruby, a 6-petaflop cluster, will be used for the stockpile stewardship mission, open science, and the search for therapeutic drugs and antibodies against SARS-CoV-2.
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DOE 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-19.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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SC20 event calendar
LLNL participates in the 32nd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20) held virtually on November 9–19, 2020.
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