LLNL Computing’s groundbreaking research and development activities, innovative technologies, and world-class staff are often featured in various media outlets.
Source: Exascale Computing Project
CEED’s impact on Exascale Computing Project efforts is wide-ranging
The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations (CEED) within the ECP involves more than 30 computational scientists from 2 DOE labs (Livermore and Argonne) and 5 universities.
Source: Data Center Dynamics
Cooling exascale: LLNL plans two exascale supercomputers totaling 85MW
Supercomputers have always been at the forefront of cooling technologies, with their high-power densities demanding careful attention. An LLNL team is upgrading facilities for exascale supercomputers.
Source: LLNL Computing
Meghan McGarry leads LLNL in new nuclear nonproliferation consortium
In the recently launched MTV Consortium, the Lab and academia join forces to address crucial global security challenges.
Source: LLNL News
Dirty bomb simulator prepares responders
Ryan Chen, LLNL data analyst and visualization technologist, has developed a model called the RDD Studio that provides a detailed simulation of an optimal response to a radiological dispersal device.
Source: Science & Technology Review
Small brain-on-a-chip promises big payoffs
LLNL’s brain-on-a-chip may offer an effective way to evaluate the organ’s response to threats. Data analytics and HPC modeling help scientists better understand neuronal networks.
Computational Science Emerging Architectures Neuromorphic Computing
Source: LLNL News
HPC4EI program announces first awards for public/private partnerships
The HPC4EI program announced 9 public/private projects awarded more than $2 million from the DOE. This program is the umbrella entity for the HPC4Mfg and HPC4Mtls programs, headed out of LLNL.
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Source: PCMag
Why do we need supercomputers and who Is using them?
LLNL is home to several supercomputers, including Sierra, the world's second fastest. PCMag stopped by to find out how these computers handle virtual nuclear weapons tests and weather modeling.
Computational Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous
Source: insideHPC
Supercomputing potential impacts of a major quake by building location and size
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore and Berkeley Labs are using supercomputers to quantify earthquake hazard and risk across the Bay Area.
Source: insideHPC
Supercomputing asteroid impacts for planetary defenses
In support of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, researchers are creating 3D models and using LLNL's ALE3D code to produce simulations of hypothetical asteroid impact scenarios.
Source: HPCwire
Hyperion Research announces new winners of HPC Innovation Excellence awards
An LLNL team used LANL's Trinity supercomputer for a machine-learned surrogate representation of their laser-driven fusion implosion model.
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Source: LLNL News
LLNL’s Lassen supercomputer leaps to no. 10 on TOP500 list, Sierra remains no. 2
LLNL’s Lassen joined Sierra in the top 10 of the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, announced at the 2019 International Supercomputing Conference in Frankfurt, Germany.
Source: LLNL News
LLNL, Foundation seek to set up ALS consortium
LLNL and the Livermore Lab Foundation may establish a consortium to leverage the Lab’s computing capabilities to identify causal factors for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Source: Phys.org
Preparing scientific applications for exascale computing
Next-generation computing systems are projected to surpass the speed of today's supercomputers by 5–10 times. This article explains OpenMP-relevant initiatives under the Exascale Computing Project.
Computational Science Emerging Architectures HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Programming Languages and Models
Source: LLNL News
Two-week workshop lets UC Merced students step into shoes of Lab computer scientists
LLNL recently hosted its first-ever Data Science Challenge Workshop, a two-week crash course in what it’s like to work in data science, with students from UC Merced.
Source: LLNL Computing
ISC19 event calendar
LLNL heads to the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC19) in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 16 to 20.
Source: Supercomputing Conference 2019
Stephen Herbein keeps his SC conference connection thriving
LLNL computer scientist Stephen Herbein (pictured at right, above) was a student volunteer during his first SC conference. Now he's on the planning committee.
Source: LLNL News
NFL comes to Lab to hear latest on TBI research
NFL officials visited LLNL to hear how national labs are using HPC and AI to advance scientific understanding of traumatic brain injury.
Source: Data Science Institute
Speech generation: siblings collaborate on machine learning hackathon project
Brothers and Computation teammates Joe and Sam Eklund discuss their multi-hackathon project using Deep Voice 3.
Source: LLNL Computing
NLIT 2019 event calendar
National Laboratories Information Technology (NLIT) Summit is a valuable annual event for LLNL’s IT professionals and the DOE complex.
Source: LLNL Computing
Kathryn Mohror completes tenure as S&TR scientific editor
Kathryn Mohror's tenure with the Lab's magazine produced eight issues.
Source: LLNL Computing
Middle school coding club caps off another successful year with help from Livermore and Sandia trio
For students interested in learning coding and computer technology, the Girls Who Code clubs in the Livermore middle and high schools are the place to be.
Source: Data Center Dynamics
How machine learning could change science
Fred Streitz explains LLNL's work to exploit the relationship between simulation and experiments to build predictive codes.
Source: GCN
Opening supercomputing to all agencies
LLNL's Ian Lee discusses the importance of open-source software and cloud computing for HPC centers and government agencies.
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Source: Better Scientific Software
Continuous technology refreshment: an introduction using recent tech refresh experiences on VisIt
An LLNL-authored blog post describes the practice of continuous technology refreshment—the upgrade or replacement of infrastructure to deliver reliability, speed, capacity, and/or features.
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Source: Science & Technology Review
S&TR cover story: Machine learning on a mission
As demonstrated by CASC computer scientists, LLNL's innovative data-driven machine learning techniques teach computers to solve real-world problems.
AI/ML Computational Math Data Science ML Theory Scientific Visualization