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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NNSA researchers break the molecular-dynamics timescale barrier with world’s largest chip
In a groundbreaking development for computational science, a team of Tri-Lab researchers has unveiled a revolutionary approach to molecular dynamics simulations using the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine, the world’s largest computer chip.
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Podcast: Introducing El Capitan
On the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will go behind the scenes of LLNL's latest groundbreaking achievement: El Capitan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
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LLNL and Oxide work together to advance cloud and HPC convergence
Oxide Cloud Computer installation at Livermore Computing's HPC center modernizes on-premises cloud computing capabilities for general purpose workloads.
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El Capitan verified as world's fastest supercomputer
Verified at 1.742 exaflops (1.742 quintillion calculations per second) on the High Performance Linpack—the standard benchmark used by the Top500 organization to evaluate supercomputing performance—El Capitan is the fastest computing system ever benchmarked.
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Road to El Capitan 11: Industry investment
The NNSA’s exascale milestone is possible only through successful industry partnerships. Hewlett Packard Enterprise staff share their experiences working with LLNL.
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Podcast: Impact and legacy of DYNA3D
An iconic LLNL computer code that has saved the automobile industry billions of dollars is the focus for the newest episode of the Big Ideas Lab Podcast.
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Magazine showcases R&D 100 Award winners
The latest issue of R&D World's magazine showcases LLNL's 2024 winning technologies, including UnifyFS and UMap software projects.
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SC24 event calendar
LLNL is participating in the 36th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC24) in Atlanta on November 17–22, 2024.
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Revolutionizing quantum science
Livermore’s advances in quantum science research present new paradigms for computing, direct simulation, studying complex quantum phenomena, and unprecedented precision in sensing.
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Simulating liver surgeries with virtual reality
A virtual reality training platform allows liver surgeons to prepare and train outside of the operating room.
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Breaking the ICE: ICECap looks to use exascale fusion simulations to pioneer digital design
A groundbreaking multidisciplinary team is combining the power of exascale computing with AI, advanced workflows, and GPU acceleration to advance scientific innovation and revolutionize digital design.
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Video: Update on the El Capitan supercomputer
Learn about the game-changing potential of El Capitan and discover how it will not only transform HPC and AI but also revolutionize scientific research across multiple domains.
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Video: HPC tutorials playlist updated for 2024
Follow along at your own pace through tutorials of several open-source HPC software projects.
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Podcast: History of LLNL supercomputing
Listen to the latest Big Ideas Lab podcast episode on LLNL supercomputing! This article contains links to the podcast on Spotify and Apple.
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HPC4Mfg workshop gathers innovators for collaborative discussions
The event attracted more than 60 attendees from diverse sectors and featured discussions aimed at fostering new collaborations with various DOE offices and national labs.
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DOE honors seven early-career Lab scientists
Among them is Shusen Liu, a computer scientist in the Machine Intelligence Group in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing.
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LLNL’s Mohror honored with prestigious technical computing award
The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC) has awarded Kathryn Mohror with its prestigious Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing (EWLTC) Award.
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Lab scientists win R&D 100 awards
An optics element team and two open-source software teams (UMap and UnifyFS) are LLNL's winners of this year's awards.
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Measuring failure risk and resiliency in AI/ML models
A CASC researcher and collaborators study model failure and resilience in a paper accepted to the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning.
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Measuring attack vulnerability in AI/ML models
LLNL researchers study model robustness in a paper accepted to the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning.
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LLNL, DOD, NNSA dedicate Rapid Response Laboratory and supercomputing system to accelerate biodefense
The collaboration has enabled expanding systems of the same architecture as LLNL’s upcoming exascale supercomputer, El Capitan, featuring AMD’s cutting-edge MI300A processors.
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Understanding the changing climate
Ensuring researchers and policymakers can predict and prepare for the long-term effects of a changing climate is a central, motivating question for the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) project.
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Evaluating trust and safety of large language models
In two papers from the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning, Livermore researchers investigate how LLMs perform under measurable scrutiny.
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SIGGRAPH recognizes LLNL scientist and collaborators with Best Paper Award
Developed by LLNL, Colorado, and Purdue researchers, a new approach eases the implementation of curved geometries into computing simulations.
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ISCP projects make machine learning advantages tangible
To keep employees abreast of the latest tools, two data science–focused projects are under way as part of Lawrence Livermore’s Institutional Scientific Capability Portfolio.
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Department of Energy announces FASST initiative
The proposed Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security and Technology (FASST) initiative will advance national security; attract and build a talented workforce; harness AI for scientific discovery; address energy challenges; develop technical expertise necessary for AI governance.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 14 | June 2024
This issue highlights some of CASC’s contributions to the DOE's Exascale Computing Project.
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Video: The surprising places you’ll find machine learning
LLNL is applying ML to real-world applications on multiple scales. Researchers explain why water filtration, wildfires, and carbon capture are becoming more solvable thanks to groundbreaking data science methodologies on some of the world’s fastest computers.
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Matrix unloaded: GPU-boosted solvers for diffusion physics
Developed by LLNL and Portland State University researchers, innovative matrix-free solvers offer performance gains for complex multiphysics simulations.
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Symposium paper formally verifies whether linear systems will converge
A new method defines a formal specification for convergence, which can be used to derive a set of machine-checkable conditions to guarantee a convergent solution to a differential equation.
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LLNL and BridgeBio announce trials for supercomputing-discovered cancer drug
In a milestone for supercomputing-aided drug design, LLNL and BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics today announced clinical trials have begun for a first-in-class medication that targets specific genetic mutations implicated in many types of cancer.
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Evolving at the speed of exascale
Bugs, broken codes, or system failures require added time for troubleshooting and increase the risk of data loss. LLNL has addressed failure recovery by developing the Scalable Checkpoint/Restart (SCR) framework.
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S&TR cover story: The Laboratory’s habit of innovation
LLNL’s HPC capabilities play a significant role in international science research and innovation, and Lab researchers have won 10 R&D 100 Awards in the Software–Services category in the past decade.
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DOE, LLNL take center stage at inaugural AI expo
Held May 7–8 in Washington, DC, the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) AI Expo showcased groundbreaking initiatives in AI and emerging technologies. Kim Budil and other Lab speakers presented at center stage and the DOE exhibition booth.
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Video: Supercomputer problems you’ve never heard of
Two LLNL teams have come up with ingenious solutions to a few of the more vexing difficulties. For their efforts, they’ve won awards coveted by scientists in the technology fields.
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The lab that launched a thousand software projects
Release the codes! With a dynamic developer community and a long history of encouraging open-source software, LLNL has reached quadruple-digit GitHub offerings.
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Register for HPC tutorials in August
Learn how to use a modern, open-source HPC software stack! Throughout August, join our tutorials on how to install and use several projects on AWS EC2 instances. No previous experience is necessary, and everyone is welcome.
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Dream Day brings Girls Who Code students to the Lab
The event gave local middle schoolers a taste of what computer scientists do at the Lab.
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Former Lawrence fellow Amanda Randles awarded 2023 ACM Prize in Computing
Randles, a former Lawrence fellow and current LLNL collaborator, was recognized for “groundbreaking contributions to computational health through innovative algorithms, tools and high performance computing methods for diagnosing and treating a variety of human diseases.”
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LLNL honored as one of Glassdoor's 2024 'Best-Led Companies'
This award honors companies with exceptional senior leadership teams that go above and beyond to redefine the employee experience.
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Video: How will El Capitan run?
Discover how the software architecture and storage systems that will drive El Capitan’s performance will help LLNL and the NNSA Tri-Labs push the boundaries of computational science.
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LLNL’s El Capitan debuted on new Top500 list of world’s most powerful supercomputers
Unveiled at the International Supercomputing Conference in Germany, the June 2024 Top500 lists three systems with identical components as registering 19.65 petaflops on the High Performance Linpack benchmark, ranking them among the world’s 50 fastest.
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GUIDE team develops approach to redesign antibodies against viral pandemics
In a groundbreaking development for addressing future viral pandemics, a multi-institutional team involving LLNL researchers has successfully combined an AI-backed platform with supercomputing to r
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UC/LLNL joint workshop sparks crucial dialogue on AI safety
Throughout the workshop, speakers, panelists and attendees focused on algorithm development, the potential dangers of superhuman AI systems and the importance of understanding and mitigating the risks to humans, as well as urgent measures needed to address the risks both scientifically and politically.
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ISC24 event calendar
LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC24) on May 12–16.
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LLNL team accelerates multi-physics simulations with El Capitan predecessor systems
LLNL researchers have achieved a milestone in accelerating and adding features to complex multiphysics simulations run on GPUs, a development that could advance HPC and engineering.
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Video: Igniting scientific discovery with AI and supercomputing
LLNL’s fusion ignition breakthrough, more than 60 years in the making, was enabled by a combination of traditional fusion target design methods, HPC, and AI techniques.
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Road to El Capitan 6: Modern compilers
Compilers translate human-programmable source code into machine-readable code. Building a compiler is especially challenging in the exascale era.
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Road to El Capitan 7: Packaging for everyone
Backed by Spack’s robust functionality, the Packaging Working Group manages the relationships between user software and system software.
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Road to El Capitan 10: Collaboration is key
The El Capitan Center of Excellence provides a conduit between national labs and commercial vendors, ensuring that the exascale system will meet everyone’s needs.
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