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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Lori Diachin named to 2025 ‘legends’ of high-performance computing list
LLNL’s Principal Deputy for Computing Lori Diachin has been named one of HPCwire’s “35 Legends” for 2025, a recognition that celebrates pioneers, visionaries and champions who have left an enduring mark on HPC.
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Faster topology optimization: an emerging industrial design technique gets a speed boost
Researchers at Brown University, LLNL, and Simula Research Laboratory have developed a new algorithm to help optimizers arrive at solutions in fewer iterations, saving valuable computing time.
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S&TR cover story: Another innovation celebration
A unique laser optic design and two novel open-source software projects bring the Laboratory’s R&D 100 awards total to 182.
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ICML25 acceptances
LLNL researchers have posters and workshop papers accepted to the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning on July 13–19.
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Cancer drug candidate developed using supercomputing & AI blocks tumor growth without toxic side effect
A new cancer drug candidate developed by LLNL, BridgeBio Oncology Therapeutics, and the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research has demonstrated the ability to block tumor growth without triggering a common and debilitating side effect.
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Robust evaluation of PDE solutions on high-order meshes
A new mathematical technique improves the computational efficiency of evaluating the solution in large-scale, high-order meshes on advanced HPC systems.
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Global community convenes for Spack’s first user meeting
Nicknamed SUM25, Spack’s first user meeting showcased new development and a thriving community.
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El Capitan reigns supreme across three major supercomputing benchmarks
LLNL's flagship exascale machine maintained its status as the fastest supercomputer on the planet—claiming the No. 1 spot on not just one, but three of the most prestigious HPC rankings.
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LLNL Deputy Director Pat Falcone receives inaugural AI Honors in Public Science Award
Organizers praised Falcone's “extraordinary leadership in driving research directions to advance science and technology at one of America's most vital research institutions.”
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S&TR highlight: AI leadership for national security
As the application of AI across industries accelerates the pace of development, so too must national security remain at the cutting edge, a task requiring extensive collaboration to deploy the nation’s most critical resources.
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Register for HPC tutorials this summer
Learn how to use a modern, open-source HPC software stack! From mid-July to mid-September, join our tutorials on how to install and use several projects on AWS EC2 instances (provided). All experience levels are welcome.
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LLNL, Amazon partner on groundbreaking AI integration at the National Ignition Facility
LLNL and Amazon Web Services are partnering to leverage the power of AI to enhance operations at the National Ignition Facility.
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Stanford professor discusses future of visually intelligent machines and human-AI collaboration
Stanford University professor and AI visionary Fei-Fei Li went beyond technical milestones from her two-decade career into her philosophy of intelligence, ranging from the evolution of vision in the Cambrian Age to modern-day “robot cousins” that can see and assist humans in everyday menial tasks.
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Big Ideas Lab podcast enters the quantum realm
In the current episode of the Big Ideas Lab, dive into the strange new frontier where physics meets information, and reality gets rewritten—qubit by qubit.
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LLNL researchers use AI to look for potential ALS treatments
A team of researchers from LLNL, Stanford University, and UCLA are using AI and machine learning to find potential treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neurodegenerative diseases in the form of drugs prescribed for other conditions.
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DOE Secretary Wright gets up-close look at innovation in action during LLNL visit
Wright’s day-long visit—his first to LLNL since being appointed Energy secretary—included behind-the-scenes tours of some of LLNL’s most advanced facilities and machines, from the National Ignition Facility to El Capitan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
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ISC25 event calendar
LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC24) on June 10–13.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Wright visits LLNL
Wright’s daylong visit included briefings and discussions with LLNL experts in key mission areas including stockpile modernization, fusion energy, AI, cybersecurity and supercomputing.
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Big Ideas Lab podcast examines how AI Is reshaping science at LLNL
On the latest episode of The Big Ideas Lab podcast, listeners will get an inside look at this transformation, as LLNL physicists Brian Spears and Kelli Humbird explain how AI is no longer just about chatbots and automating simple tasks.
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Proteus arrives just in time for faster HPC code compilation
A new just-in-time compilation approach leverages LLVM intermediate representation to optimize GPU kernels with portability to any GPU architecture.
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‘STEM Day at the Lab’ enters its 10th year of bringing science to LLNL communities
LLNL STEM Day ignites curiosity and shapes futures, delivering high-quality science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to more than 1,935 students—and the impact keeps growing.
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Distinguished paper offers unique solution for GPU offloading
Research recognized at the HiPC IEEE conference proposes using an optimized version of OpenMP for vendor-agnostic GPU performance, portability, and scalability.
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Dream Day inspires Livermore students to explore STEM careers
More than 50 students from five Livermore middle schools visited LLNL on April 18 for Dream Day, an event filled with hands-on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) activities.
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Simulating hot-spot formation in insensitive high explosives
Using the Sierra supercomputer, an LLNL team has made significant progress in understanding how microscopic hot spots form in insensitive high explosives based on TATB.
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ICLR25 acceptances
LLNL researchers have posters and workshop papers accepted to the 13th International Conference on Learning Representations on April 24–28.
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New nucleotide database could improve microbe identification for science and medicine
LLNL researchers have created new, optimized indices of the nt database that simplify how scientists classify microorganisms found in various samples, significantly improving the ability to identify and understand the myriad microorganisms that inhabit our world.
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LLNL scientists use AI to optimize antibodies against mutations and accelerate pandemic preparedness
Researchers from LLNL, in collaboration with other leading institutions, have successfully used an AI-driven platform to preemptively optimize an antibody to neutralize a broad diversity of SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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LLNL employees dive into AI’s transformative potential at aiEDGE for Innovation Day
More than 3,200 LLNL employees participated in the first-ever aiEDGE for Innovation Day on March 26—an event aimed at empowering and equipping the Lab’s workforce to integrate AI into their daily work.
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Tracy students dream big at LLNL’s ‘Dream Day’ event
About two dozen students from Tracy, California, visited LLNL on March 21 for a day of interactive enrichment activities as part of “Dream Day,” an event designed to introduce students to Lab careers and science.
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LLNL scientists take new approach to understanding protein-membrane interactions
A study led by LLNL scientists is providing new insights into the complex interactions between proteins and cell membranes, combining detailed molecular simulations and large-scale models.
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Mapping cosmic shear to illuminate dark energy
In a recent study published in the Astrophysical Journal, LLNL researchers developed an innovative approach to map cosmic shear using linear algebra, statistics, and HPC.
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1,000 Scientist AI Jam Session explores AI-driven scientific discovery
The February 28 event brought together over 1,400 Department of Energy scientists across multiple sites to explore how cutting-edge AI models could transform scientific research.
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Lori Diachin on HPCwire's 2025 People to Watch list
People to Watch are at the forefront of HPC trends, adapting new technology to the rapidly changing world in order to unlock the answers to the biggest societal challenges of our time and make the impossible, possible.
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Enhancing the software ecosystem with LLMs
Over the next three years, CASC researchers and collaborators will integrate LLMs into HPC software to boost performance and sustainability.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 15 | March 2025
Highlights include ML techniques for computed tomography, a scalable Gaussian process framework, safe and trustworthy AI, and autonomous multiscale simulations.
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LLNL to examine exoplanet atmospheres with HPC
LLNL, Arizona State University and Michigan State University will dive deep into uncovering the compositions of 70 exoplanets through the Computing Grand Challenge Program, which allocates significant quantities of institutional computational resources to scientists to perform cutting-edge research.
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S&TR cover story: Introducing El Capitan
The latest issue of LLNL's magazine explains how the world’s most powerful supercomputer helps scientists safeguard the U.S. nuclear stockpile.
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High-performance computing at a crossroads
LLNL's Bruce Hendrickson joins other HPC luminaries in this op-ed about the future of the field.
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Podcast: AI and drug discovery
The latest episode of the Big Ideas Lab podcast investigates the use of artificial intelligence for drug discovery and other uses.
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Vanguards of HPC-AI: Spack builder Todd Gamblin of LLNL
Todd Gamblin has a well-deserved reputation in the HPC software community as a passionate engineer who enjoys rolling up his sleeves and diving into technical problems. It’s not a stretch to see how he got hooked on HPC.
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Quantum computers successfully model particle scattering
When quantum mechanical particles scatter, it shifts the position of their wave. The new algorithm accurately measures these shifts, opening the way to quantum simulations of scattering processes.
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LLNL Researchers Quantify Metal Strength Uncertainty in High-Explosives Models
The team used a Bayesian approach to quantify metal strength uncertainty with tantalum and two common explosive materials and integrated it into a coupled metal/high-explosive model.
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ML-driven binary analysis pipeline enhances software quality assurance
Presented last fall at a conference, a new approach to software binary analysis incorporates large-scale training data and hierarchical embeddings.
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Lab teams recognized with Secretary of Energy’s Honor Awards
Among the honorees was the Exascale Computing Project leadership team, which successfully delivered the 7-year, $1.8 billion collaboration among six DOE national laboratories.
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LLNL makes Glassdoor’s 2025 Best Places to Work list
This is the sixth recognition the Laboratory has earned in Glassdoor’s award program since its inception in 2009.
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Video: LLNL dedicates El Capitan
Hundreds of current and former LLNL employees, government officials, and industry leaders gathered on January 9 to mark a monumental achievement: the dedication of El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer.
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Advancing cybersecurity for advanced threats
Livermore’s Cyber Security Program has adopted new cloud-based tools and created others to protect the Laboratory’s enterprise system from cyber threats.
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S&TR cover story: Beginning at the end
The DarkStar inverse design technique blends AI, machine learning, and advanced hydrodynamics simulations to optimize science and engineering solutions starting from the final state.
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LLNL dedicates El Capitan, ushering in new era in supercomputing for national security
The event marked a monumental achievement with the acceptance and deployment of the first exascale computing system built for the NNSA, a historic milestone in national security and scientific computing recognizing the collaborative efforts of government, industry and scientific leaders.
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Kathryn Mohror: a passion for managing scientific data
This interview with HPC-AI Vanguard Kathryn Mohror covers her thoughts on teamwork, her projects, the field, and more.
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Second ‘STEM Day at the Lab’ in 2024 ignites student engagement
LLNL welcomed more than 240 students and chaperones from the Central Valley to the second ‘STEM Day at the Lab’ in 2024. STEM Day is a biannual daylong interactive event for students (grades 5-8) from underserved communities.
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Girls Who Code ‘Altamont Connection’ brings Livermore and Tracy students to the Lab for the second year
High school students from Livermore and Tracy recently visited LLNL bringing participants from the two cities’ Girls Who Code programs together on-site for group activities and tours.
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A look back at SC24
SC24, held recently in Atlanta, was a landmark event, setting new records and demonstrating LLNL's unparalleled contributions to HPC innovation and impact.
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Data Days workshop gathers DOE national labs to discuss future of data management
Drawing more than 300 attendees, this year’s “D3” workshop focused on tackling pressing data challenges in nuclear security, energy and collaborative scientific discovery, and featured a host of talks, presentations and panels.
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S&TR cover story: GUIDEing drug development
The Generative Unconstrained Intelligent Drug Engineering (GUIDE) program accelerates development of medical countermeasure candidates to redefine biological defense.
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LLNL teams win two HPCwire awards at SC24
Two teams led by LLNL computer scientists won Editor’s Awards from HPCwire, a leading high performance computing industry publication, at the 2024 Supercomputing Conference in Atlanta.
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Workshop highlights new research using finite element methods
Held for the first time in a hybrid format, the multi-day MFEM workshop drew participants from around the globe.
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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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