LLNL Computing’s ground-breaking research and development activities, innovative technologies, and world-class staff are often featured in various media outlets.
Source: LLNL News
New ML platform generates COVID-19 antibody sequences for experimental testing
LLNL researchers have identified an initial set of therapeutic antibody sequences, designed using machine learning and supercomputing, aimed at binding and neutralizing SARS-CoV-2.
AI/ML Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science Data Science
Source: Exascale Computing Project
Podcast: Flexible package manager automates software deployment on supercomputers
The Exascale Computing Project's Let's Talk Exascale podcast has a new episode (5:54) featuring LLNL's Todd Gamblin, who talks about the package manager Spack.
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Source: Mission.org
Podcast: Using data to build a secure future
On the Hidden in Plain Sight podcast, LLNL director Bill Goldstein explains how the Lab crunches data to shape the future.
Source: LLNL News
Upgrades for LLNL supercomputer from AMD, Penguin Computing aid COVID-19 research
AMD will supply upgraded GPUs for the Corona supercomputing cluster, which will be used by scientists working on discovering potential antibodies and antiviral compounds for SARS-CoV-2.
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Source: LLNL News
LLNL summer student program update
This summer, LLNL will offer a remote program allowing students to carry out research projects by telecommuting, if their original project can be modified for online work.
Source: Data Science Institute
Local Women in Data Science conference showcases Lab research
Held in early March, the WiDS Livermore event featured four technical talks from LLNL data scientists.
Source: Data Science Institute
Lab promotes diversity, tech at Women in Data Science regional event
The early-March event was the third annual WiDS Livermore event, featuring speakers, a career panel, mentoring, and a livestream.
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Source: LLNL News
LLNL creates web resources to aid in fight against COVID-19
LLNL has infrastructure, unique research capabilities, and a dedicated team of scientists and engineers supporting the fight against COVID-19.
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Source: LLNL News
Lab antibody, antiviral research aids COVID-19 response
LLNL scientists are contributing to the global fight against COVID-19 by combining AI/ML, bioinformatics, and supercomputing to help discover candidates for new antibodies and pharmaceutical drugs.
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Source: LLNL News
Partnership to unleash U.S. supercomputing resources in the fight against COVID-19
The White House announced the COVID-19 HPC Consortium to provide access to HPC resources that can advance scientific discovery in the fight to stop the virus.
Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
Source: HPCwire
LLNL highlights Magma’s role in NNSA’s computing arsenal
This week, LLNL highlighted one of the latest additions to its computing arsenal: Magma. Magma is a Penguin Computing “Relion” system comprised of 752 nodes with Intel Xeon Platinum 9242 processors.
Source: LLNL News
LLNL and HPE to partner with AMD on El Capitan, projected as world’s fastest supercomputer
With its advanced CPUs/GPUs developed by AMD, El Capitan’s peak performance is expected to exceed 2 exaflops, which would make it the fastest supercomputer in the world when it is deployed in 2023.
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Source: LLNL News
Lab team sizzles at DOE Grid Optimization Competition
LLNL bested more than two dozen teams to place first overall in Challenge 1 of the DOE Grid Optimization Competition, aimed at developing a more reliable, resilient, and secure U.S. electrical grid.
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Source: UC Merced
UC Merced students learning, growing at Livermore Lab
The university and LLNL open a door to research collaborations as well as job and internship opportunities for students and alumni.
Source: Advanced Simulation and Computing
ASC Sequoia: the advanced technology system that broke new ground
On January 31, 2020, the Sequoia supercomputer and its file system were decommissioned after nearly 8 years of remarkable service and achievements.
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Source: LLNL Computing
16 bits from the winter hackathon
New year, new hackathon! The January 30–31 event was Computing’s 23rd hackathon and the 1st scheduled in the winter season.
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Source: Laser Focus World
Can machine learning improve computer models enough to ignite ICF?
Laser-fusion researchers have turned to machine-learning techniques to seek the combinations of laser pulse characteristics and target design needed to optimize target implosions for ICF.
Source: LLNL Computing
Upgraded data archives position Lab for exascale era
LLNL is now home to the world’s largest Spectra TFinity system, following a complete replacement of the tape library hardware that supports Livermore’s data archives.
HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Storage, File Systems, and I/O
Source: LLNL Computing
HPC-driven collaboration accelerates drug discovery
A multi-institutional consortium aims to speed up the drug discovery pipeline by building predictive, data-driven pharmaceutical models.
AI/ML Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science Data Science Deep Learning HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous
Source: LLNL News
Sierra team among Lab teams recognized by Secretary of Energy Awards
The Summit Sierra team, consisting of 45 staff at LLNL and ORNL, received a DOE Secretary’s Achievement Award for delivering, respectively, Sierra and Summit supercomputers.
Source: Exascale Computing Project
Podcast: Optimizing math libraries to prepare applications for exascale computing
The extreme-scale scientific software development kit (xSDK) is an ecosystem of independently developed math libraries and scientific domain components.
Computational Math HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Multimedia
Source: LLNL Computing
CASC Newsletter | Vol 8 | August 2019
Highlights include perspectives on machine learning and artificial intelligence in science, data driven models, autonomous vehicle operations, and the OpenMP standard 5.0.
AI/ML Computational Math Computational Science Data Science Data-Driven Decisions Debugging and Correctness Deep Learning HPC Systems and Software Hydrodynamics ML Theory Programming Languages and Models Scientific ML Scientific Visualization
Source: LLNL Computing
CASC Newsletter | Vol 7 | December 2018
Highlights include debris and shrapnel modeling at NIF, scalable algorithms for complex engineering systems, magnetic fusion simulation, and data placement optimization on GPUs.
Computational Math Computational Science Data Movement and Memory Discrete Mathematics HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Hydrodynamics Lasers and Optics Materials Science Mathematical Optimization PDE Methods Solvers
Source: LLNL Computing
CASC Newsletter | Vol 6 | August 2018
Highlights include CASC director Jeff Hittinger's vision for the center as well as recent work with PruneJuice DataRaceBench, Caliper, and SUNDIALS.
Computational Math Data Science Debugging and Correctness HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software ODE Methods Open-Source Software Programming Languages and Models Resource and Workflow Management Solvers
Source: LLNL Computing
CASC Newsletter | Vol 5 | April 2018
Highlights include the latest work with RAJA, the Exascale Computing Project, algebraic multigrid preconditioners, and OpenMP.
Compiler Technology Computational Math Computational Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Hydrodynamics PDE Methods Performance, Portability, and Productivity Power Management Programming Languages and Models