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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Source: LLNL News

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.

Awards | Exascale | Fault Tolerance and Resilience | HPC Systems and Software | Performance, Portability, and Productivity | Storage, File Systems, and I/O

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Source: LLNL News

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.

Awards | HPC Systems and Software | Open-Source Software

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Source: LLNL Computing

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.

AI/ML | Data Science | Deep Learning | ML Theory | UQ and Statistics

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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.

AI/ML | Data Science | ML Theory

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Source: LLNL News

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.

AI/ML | Biology/Biomedicine | Computational Science | Data Science | Emerging Architectures | HPC Systems and Software

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Source: Science & Technology Review

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.

Climate | Computational Science

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Source: LLNL Computing

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.

AI/ML | Data Compression | Data Science | ML Theory | Natural Language Processing

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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.

Awards | Collaborations | Computational Math | Mathematical Optimization | Scientific Visualization

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Source: Data Science Institute

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.

AI/ML | Cloud Services | Data Science | Education | HPC Systems and Software | Information Technology | Scientific Cloud Computing

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Source: Department of Energy

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.

AI/ML | Collaborations | Computational Science | Data Science | Scientific ML

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Source: YouTube

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.

AI/ML | Climate | Computational Science | Critical Infrastructure | Data Science | Multimedia | Scientific ML

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Source: LLNL Computing

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.

Collaborations | Computational Math | Computational Science | Discrete Mathematics | Hydrodynamics | PDE Methods | Solvers

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Source: LLNL Computing

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.

Computational Math | ODE Methods

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Source: LLNL News

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.

Biology/Biomedicine | CogSim/AI/ML Hardware | Collaborations | Computational Science | Data Science | Emerging Architectures | HPC Systems and Software | Scientific ML

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Source: Science & Technology Review

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.

Awards | Exascale | Fault Tolerance and Resilience | HPC Systems and Software | Open-Source Software | Storage, File Systems, and I/O

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Source: Science & Technology Review

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.

AI/ML | Awards | Biology/Biomedicine | Computational Science | Data Compression | Data Science | Exascale | HPC Systems and Software | Open-Source Software | Power Management | Programming Languages and Models | Scientific ML

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Source: LLNL News

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.

AI/ML | Data Science | Events

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Source: YouTube

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.

Awards | Data Compression | Data Science | Exascale | HPC Systems and Software | Multimedia | Open-Source Software | Performance, Portability, and Productivity | Power Management

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Source: LLNL Computing

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.

Collaborations | Open-Source Software | Software Applications | Software Engineering | Software Libraries

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Source: High Performance Computing Innovation Center

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.

Education | Events | HPC Systems and Software | Open-Source Software | Outreach | Scientific Cloud Computing | Software Engineering | Software Libraries

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Source: LLNL Computing

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.

Education | Events | Outreach | Students

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Source: LLNL News

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.”

Awards | Careers | Computational Science

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Source: LLNL News

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.

Awards | Careers

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Source: YouTube

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.

Emerging Architectures | Exascale | HPC Systems and Software | Multimedia | Open-Source Software | Performance, Portability, and Productivity | Resource and Workflow Management | Software Build and Installation | Software Libraries | Storage, File Systems, and I/O