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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Video: Data compression for modern supercomputing applications
Unique among data compressors, zfp is designed to be a compact number format for storing data arrays in-memory in compressed form while still supporting high-speed random access.
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Video: Vendor-agnostic power management
Variorum provides robust, portable interfaces that allow us to measure and optimize computation at the physical level: temperature, cycles, energy, and power. With that foundation, we can get the best possible use of our world-class computing resources.
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LLNL and SambaNova Systems announce additional AI hardware to support Lab’s cognitive simulation efforts
The addition of the spatial data flow accelerator into LLNL’s Livermore Computing Center is part of an effort to upgrade the Lab’s cognitive simulation (CogSim) program.
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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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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."
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Register for WiDS Livermore on March 8
Register by February 27 for this free, hybrid Women in Data Science event. Everyone is welcome.
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LLNL’s Doerfert named Better Scientific Software fellow
Computer scientist Johannes Doerfert was recognized as a 2023 BSSw fellow. He plans to use the funding to create videos about best practices for interacting with compilers.
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Lawrence Livermore’s Discovery Center to reopen to visitors
Discovery Center reopens to visitors on Feb. 1, after nearly three years of closure due to COVID-19, featuring renovations and new exhibits.
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Skywing: open-source software aids collaborative autonomy applications
Collaborative autonomy software apps allow networked devices to detect, gather, identify and interpret data; defend against cyber-attacks; and continue to operate despite infiltration.
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Video: Hackathon puts machine learning in the driver’s seat
From our fall 2022 hackathon, watch as participants trained an autonomous race car with reinforcement learning algorithms.
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New HPC4EI project to create 'digital twin' models for aerospace manufacturing
A new collaboration will leverage advanced LLNL-developed software to create a “digital twin” of the near-net shape mill-products system for producing aerospace parts.
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Bronis de Supinski named 2022 ACM fellow
The ACM recognized him for his contributions to the design of large-scale systems and their programming systems and software.
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High Performance Storage System: Taking the long view
A multidecade, multi-laboratory collaboration evolves scalable long-term data storage and retrieval solutions to survive the march of time.
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Cognitive simulation supercharges scientific research
Adding machine learning and other artificial intelligence methods to the feedback cycle of experimentation and computer modeling can accelerate scientific discovery.
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Best paper winner improves scientific workflow performance
Combining specialized software tools with heterogeneous HPC hardware requires an intelligent workflow performance optimization strategy.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 12 | November 2022
Highlights include MFEM community workshops, compiler co-design, HPC standards committees, and AI/ML for national security.
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MFEM workshop showcases application variety and broad impact
The second annual MFEM workshop brought together the project’s global user and developer community for technical talks, Q&A, and more.
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SC22 event calendar
LLNL is participating in the 34th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC22), which will be held both virtually and in Dallas on November 13–18, 2022.
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Hackathon puts machine learning in the driver’s seat
In a time-trial competition, participants trained an autonomous race car with reinforcement learning algorithms.
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CASC collaboration with Duke University wins best paper award
Presented at the 2022 International Conference on Computational Science, the team’s research introduces metrics that can improve the accuracy of blood flow simulations.
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Celebrating 10 years of hackathons
After 10 years and 33 hackathons, nothing can stop this beloved tradition.
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Tapia2022 event calendar
LLNL participates in the CMD-IT/ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference (Tapia2022) on September 7–10.
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Developer Day returns for the sixth year
Computing’s annual Developer Day held a hybrid event on July 21 with lightning talks, a town hall discussion, and guest speakers.
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Sandia leverages Livermore’s open-source software for new website
A Sandia National Laboratories team has adapted Livermore’s software.llnl.gov website to showcase their own open-source software. Both projects are developed and hosted on GitHub.
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IPDPS 2022 event calendar
LLNL participates in the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) on May 30 through June 3.
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CASC team wins best paper at visualization symposium
Winning the best paper award at PacificVis 2022, a research team has developed a resolution-precision-adaptive representation technique that reduces mesh sizes, thereby reducing the memory and storage footprints of large scientific datasets.
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ISC22 event calendar
LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC22) on May 29 through June 2.
Compiler Technology Debugging and Correctness Emerging Architectures Events HPC Systems and Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Programming Languages and Models Resource and Workflow Management Software Build and Installation
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 11 | December 2021
Highlights include power grid challenges, performance analysis, complex boundary conditions, and a novel multiscale modeling approach.
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Kathleen Shoga leads the way for SC21 Student Cluster Competition
With a history of student participation and committee service, LLNL computer scientist Kathleen Shoga chaired this year’s competition.
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SC21 event calendar
LLNL is participating in the 33rd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC21), which will be held both virtually and in St. Louis on November 14–19, 2021.
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MFEM team hosts first community workshop
The MFEM software library provides high-order mathematical algorithms for large-scale scientific simulations. An October workshop brought together MFEM’s global user and developer community for the first time.
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Just DO IT: new internship program introduces students to DevOps
Computing’s newest internship program focuses on DevOps methodologies. The inaugural class of 2021 built a persistent data services provisioning application that will soon assist real Livermore Computing users.
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GHC21: Grace Hopper Celebration
Many LLNL women and allies attend Grace Hopper Celebration every year to learn, to network, and to be inspired.
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Summer hackathon tradition continues virtually
Each new season brings another hackathon, and Computing’s 2021 summer event took place on August 12–13.
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Dev Day makes the most of virtual format
Held virtually on July 15, our fifth annual Developer Day featured lightning talks, a technical deep dive, “quick takes” on remote-development resources, presentations about career paths, and a career development panel discussion.
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Career panel series kicks off with women in Computing leadership roles
More than 100 LLNL staff and students gathered virtually for the first session of a new career panel series inspired by the annual Women in Data Science conference and sponsored by the Data Science Institute.
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ISC21 event calendar
LLNL participates in the digital ISC High Performance Conference (ISC21) on June 24 through July 2.
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A winning strategy for deep neural networks
New research debuting at ICLR 2021 demonstrates a learning-by-compressing approach to deep learning that outperforms traditional methods without sacrificing accuracy.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 10 | April 2021
Highlights include scalable deep learning, high-order finite elements, data race detection, and reduced order models.
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SIAM CSE21 event calendar
Our researchers will be well represented at the virtual SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE21) on March 1–5. SIAM is the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics with an international community of more than 14,500 individual members.
Algorithms at Scale Computational Math Computational Science Data Science Deep Learning Discrete Mathematics Exascale Fault Tolerance and Resilience HPC Systems and Software PDE Methods Performance, Portability, and Productivity Programming Languages and Models UQ and Statistics
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CASC research in ML robustness debuts at AAAI conference
Three papers address feature importance estimation under distribution shifts, attribute-guided adversarial training, and uncertainty matching in graph neural networks.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 9 | June 2020
Highlights include response to the COVID-19 pandemic, high-order matrix-free algorithms, and managing memory spaces.
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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.
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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.
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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 Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software ODE Methods Open-Source Software Programming Languages and Models Resource and Workflow Management Solvers
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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 Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Hydrodynamics PDE Methods Performance, Portability, and Productivity Power Management Programming Languages and Models
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 4 | January 2018
Highlights include complex simulation codes, uncertainty quantification, discrete event simulation, and the Unify file system.
Compiler Technology Computational Math Computational Science Discrete Mathematics Exascale HPC Systems and Software Resource and Workflow Management Storage, File Systems, and I/O UQ and Statistics
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 3 | October 2017
Highlights include recent LDRD projects, Livermore Tomography Tools, our work with the open-source software community, fault recovery, and CEED.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 2 | July 2017
Highlights include the directorate's annual external review, machine learning for ALE simulations, CFD modeling for low-carbon solutions, seismic modeling, and an in-line floating point compression tool.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 1 | April 2017
Highlights include the HYPRE library, recent data science efforts, the IDEALS project, and the latest on the Exascale Computing Project.
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