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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Best paper winner finds the sources of calculation inconsistencies
Updating a compiler can affect how code runs, leading to inconsistencies in outputs and creating problems for scientists. A new tool automatically finds the sources of these inconsistencies.
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Source: Elastic
National lab uses Elastic to optimize performance of projected world's fastest supercomputer
The Lab was already using Elastic components to gather data from its HPC clusters, then investigated whether Elasticsearch and Kibana could be applied to all scanning and logging activities across the board.
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Girls Who Code ‘Altamont Connection’ brings students from Livermore and Tracy to the Lab
High school students from Livermore and Tracy visited LLNL on May 5 for a first-of-its kind event bringing the two cities’ Girls Who Code (GWC) programs and others together on-site.
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Celebrating the DSI’s first five years
Since 2018, the Lab has seen tremendous growth in its data science community and has invested heavily in related research. Five years later, the Data Science Institute has found its stride.
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ISC23 event calendar
LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC23) on May 21–25.
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Surveys to understand developer health and happiness
Computer scientist Vanessa Sochat talks to BSSw about a recent effort to survey software developer needs at LLNL.
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Patent applies machine learning to industrial control systems
A novel ML method discovers and predicts key data about networked devices.
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How do supercomputers fit with strategies for sustainability?
Supercomputers broke the exascale barrier, marking a new era in processing power, but the energy consumption of such machines cannot run rampant.
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Open source is fueling the future of nuclear physics
Open-source software has played a key role in paving the way for LLNL's ignition breakthrough, and will continue to help push the field forward.
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Computing codes, simulations helped make ignition possible
For the physicists, computer scientists, and code developers who have worked on fusion for decades, computer simulations have been inexorably tied to the National Ignition Facility’s quest for ignition.
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A look back: women in early computing at LLNL
LLNL’s archives recount the contributions of women who developed code during the Lab's early decades.
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Chandrika Kamath honored as 2023 SIAM fellow
The prestigious fellow designation is a lifetime honorific title and honors SIAM members who have made outstanding contributions to fields served by the organization.
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Scientists develop model for more efficient simulations of protein interactions linked to cancer
The new model addresses a problem in simulating RAS behavior, where conventional methods come up short of reaching the time- and length-scales needed to observe biological processes of RAS-related cancers.
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Patent for reduced order modeling method boosts lattice design optimization
A new component-wise reduced order modeling method enables high-fidelity lattice design optimization.
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Video: Meso and macroscale modeling 1 (IPAM at UCLA)
UCLA's Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics hosted LLNL's Tzanio Kolev for a talk about high-order finite element methods.
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First-ever hybrid Women in Data Science Livermore event celebrates achievements, supports women in the field
Women data scientists, Lab employees, and other attendees interested in the field gathered at the Livermore Valley Open Campus for the annual Livermore Women in Data Science (WiDS) regional event held in conjunction with the global WiDS conference.
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Video: Future exascale architectures (IPAM at UCLA)
UCLA's Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics hosted LLNL's Erik Draeger for a talk about the challenges and possibilities of exascale computing.
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Elastic announces 2022 Elastic Excellence Awards winners
LLNL is recognized as a public sector organization leading the way in innovative, sustainable, and critical use cases.
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HPCwire names LLNL’s Terri Quinn among 2023 'People to Watch'
“I am delighted to be recognized by HPCwire,” Quinn said. “I feel the recognition has as much to do with the stature of Livermore Computing as the opportunity I’ve had to contribute. "
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A look back: Robert Hughes and the development of FORTRAN
LLNL’s archives provide a glimpse into the career and contributions of a computing pioneer.
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Webinar: You must unlearn what you have learned
LLNL security operations team lead Ian Lee recently gave a webinar describing how the Lab uses Elasticsearch for HPC. The 19:27 video is available on demand.
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Fusion reaction: how AI, HPC are energizing science
A principal investigator at LLNL shares how machine learning on the world’s fastest systems catalyzed the lab’s breakthrough.
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Meet the unflinchingly diverse Tony Baylis
Tony Baylis, LLNL Office of Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Programs director and SC23 inclusivity co-chair, has devoted more than three decades to building partnerships and collaborations that exemplify the tenets of DEI.
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Five Lab teams recognized with Secretary’s Honor Achievement Awards
This year, the DOE honored 44 teams including LLNL's Exascale Computing Facility Modernization Project team for significant power and cooling upgrades to support upcoming exascale supercomputers.
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Science on Saturday lecture series moves to Las Positas College
LLNL's popular lecture series, “Science on Saturday,” runs February 4–25. The February 18 lecture is titled "Supersizing Computing: 70 Years of HPC."