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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Test of Time awards at 2022 IEEE VIS conference
Two LLNL-led teams received SciVis Test of Time awards at the 2022 IEEE VIS conference for papers that have achieved lasting relevancy in the field of scientific visualization.
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Hackathon puts machine learning in the driver’s seat
In a time-trial competition, participants trained an autonomous race car with reinforcement learning algorithms.
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Project co-led at LLNL looks to improve visualization of large-scale datasets
Researchers are starting a three-year project aimed at improving methods for visual analysis of large heterogeneous datasets as part of a recent DOE funding opportunity.
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LLNL scientists eagerly anticipate El Capitan’s potential impact
While LLNL awaits the arrival of El Capitan, physicists and computer scientists running scientific applications on testbeds are getting a taste of what to expect.
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Video: ECP's Exascale Day playlist
The Exascale Computing Project has compiled a playlist of videos from multiple national labs to highlight the impacts of exascale computing.
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LLNL celebrates making the impossible possible during 70th anniversary event
Employees gathered for the Lab’s first-ever Employee Engagement Day, held Oct. 11. The event featured food, drink, informative displays, historical films and more.
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Climate change threatens supercomputers
Climate change can bring not only heat, but also increased humidity, reducing the efficiency of the evaporative coolers many HPC centers rely on.
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DOE funds LLNL project to improve differentiation of extreme-scale science apps
Researchers will address the challenge of efficiently differentiating large-scale applications for the DOE by building on advances in LLNL’s MFEM finite element library and MIT’s Enzyme AD tool.
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ESGF launches effort to upgrade climate projection data system
The Earth System Grid Federation, a multi-agency initiative that gathers and distributes data for top-tier projections of the Earth’s climate, is preparing a series of upgrades to make using the data easier and faster while improving how the information is curated.
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CASC collaboration with Duke University wins best paper award
Presented at the 2022 International Conference on Computational Science, the team’s research introduces metrics that can improve the accuracy of blood flow simulations.
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Video: Exascale Computing Facility Modernization project
Preparing the Livermore Computing Center for El Capitan and the exascale era of supercomputers required an entirely new way of thinking about the facility’s mechanical and electrical capabilities.
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The people of stockpile stewardship are the key to LLNL’s success
The third article in a series about the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission highlights the people who make it happen.
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Scientific discovery for stockpile stewardship
The second article in a series about the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission highlights computational models, parallel architectures, and data science techniques.
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Developing technology to keep the nuclear stockpile safe, secure, and reliable
The first article in a series about the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission highlights the roles of computer simulations and exascale computing.
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LLNL to cooperate with University of Utah's one oneAPI Center of Excellence
The new oneAPI Center of Excellence will involve the Center for Applied Scientific Computing and accelerate ZFP compression software to advance exascale computing.
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S&TR cover story: The ACES in our hand
The Adaptive Computing Environment and Simulations (ACES) project will advance fissile materials production models and reduce risk of nuclear proliferation.
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S&TR highlight: Expanded capabilities and opportunities for VBL code
The latest generation of Livermore’s workhorse laser physics code promises full integration across research and operations applications.
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Celebrating 10 years of hackathons
After 10 years and 33 hackathons, nothing can stop this beloved tradition.
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Tapia2022 event calendar
LLNL participates in the CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference (Tapia2022) on September 7–10.
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Developer Day returns for the sixth year
Computing’s annual Developer Day held a hybrid event on July 21 with lightning talks, a town hall discussion, and guest speakers.
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Sandia leverages Livermore’s open-source software for new website
A Sandia National Laboratories team has adapted Livermore’s software.llnl.gov website to showcase their own open-source software. Both projects are developed and hosted on GitHub.
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LLNL ATDM addresses software infrastructure needs for multiple communities
The Advanced Technology Development and Mitigation program within the Exascale Computing Project shows that the best way to support the mission is through open collaboration and a sustainable software infrastructure.
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LLNL joins forces with supercomputing centers in Germany, the UK and the US to form IASC
LLNL has signed a memorandum of understanding with HPC facilities in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., jointly forming the International Association of Supercomputing Centers.
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Video: HPC Tech Shorts features Greg Becker and Spack
LLNL's Greg Becker spoke with HPC Tech Shorts to explain how Spack's binary cache works. The video “Get your HPC codes installed and running in minutes using Spack’s Binary Cache” runs 15:11.
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Going deep: new ground motion model more accurately simulates earthquakes, explosions
LLNL scientists have created a new adjoint waveform tomography model that more accurately simulates earthquake and explosion ground motions. The paper, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, was selected for an Editor’s Highlight.