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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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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LLNL’s Yang honored among 2024 SIAM Class of Fellows
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced the selection of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) computational mathematician Ulrike Meier Yang as one of the 2024 Class of SIAM Fellows, the highest honor the organization bestows on its members.
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WiDS Livermore conference attendees network, share research and absorb wisdom
With over 90 people in attendance, including those attending online and in person, the WiDS Livermore conference was once again successful in facilitating the exchange of information and fresh idea
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Todd Gamblin named to HPCwire’s 'People to Watch' list for 2024
The high performance computing publication HPCwire has selected LLNL computer scientist Todd Gamblin as one of its “People to Watch” in HPC for 2024. The program recognized 12 HPC professionals who “play leading roles in driving innovation within their particular fields, making significant contributions to society as a whole.”
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LLNL set to deploy world’s fastest supercomputer this year
The system will enable researchers from the National Nuclear Security Administration weapons design laboratories to create models and run simulations, previously considered challenging, time-intensive or impossible, for the maintenance and modernization of the United States’ nuclear weapons stockpile.
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Video: Predicting climate change impacts on infrastructure
By taking weather variables such as wildfire, flooding, wind, and sunlight that directly impact the electrical grid into consideration, researchers can improve electrical grid model projections for a more stable future.
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Machine learning tool fills in the blanks for satellite light curves
MuyGPs helps complete and forecast the brightness data of objects viewed by Earth-based telescopes.
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New research in time integration methods recognized at IEEE conference
Can novel mathematical algorithms help scientific simulations leverage hardware designed for machine learning? A team from LLNL’s Center for Applied Scientific Computing aimed to find out.
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WiDS Livermore returns for two events
The Lab is hosting two related WiDS events: First is a datathon on February 28, then the annual regional conference on March 13. These hybrid events are free and open to everyone.
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LLNL makes Glassdoor’s 2024 ‘Best Places to Work’ list
The Lab has been honored with a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award, recognizing the Best Places to Work in 2024. This is the fifth award LLNL has earned in Glassdoor’s award program since its inception in 2009.
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Colorado College computer science students spend two immersive weeks at the Lab
Thirteen students traveled to Livermore in early December for a computer science course simulating pond ecology and evolution.
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Conference paper illuminates neural image compression
New research reveals subtleties in the performance of neural image compression methods, offering insights toward improving these models for real-world applications.
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Revolutionary tool speeds up GPU programs for scientific applications
An LLNL-led team has developed a method for optimizing application performance on large-scale GPU systems, providing a useful tool for developers running on GPU-based massively parallel and distributed machines.
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LLNL’s Woodward, Hill elected to key SIAM leadership positions
The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) announced the election of LLNL computational mathematician Carol Woodward as its president-elect and computational scientist Judy Hill as a council member for the organization.
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Record-setting SC23 builds mile-high momentum for exascale computing, AI, and the future of HPC
A record number of attendees—more than 14,000—experts, researchers, vendors and enthusiasts in the field of HPC descended on the Mile High City for the 2023 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, colloquially known as SC23.
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LLNL’s Doerfert awarded IEEE Computer Society Early Career Researchers Award
Johannes Doerfert, a computer scientist in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing, was one of three researchers awarded the honor at SC23 in Denver.
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For better CT images, new deep learning tool helps fill in the blanks
LLNL researchers collaborated with Washington University in St. Louis to devise a state-of-the-art ML–based reconstruction tool for when high-quality computed tomography data is in low supply.
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LLNL-led SCREAM team clinches inaugural Gordon Bell Prize for climate modeling
An LLNL-led effort that performed an unprecedented global climate model simulation on the world’s first exascale supercomputer has won the first-ever Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling, ACM officials announced.
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Spack receives prestigious HPCwire award at SC23
Leading HPC publication HPCwire presented Spack developers with the Editor's Choice Award for Best HPC Programming Tool or Technology at SC23.
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Computational math community gathers for annual workshop
The MFEM virtual workshop highlighted the project’s development roadmap and users’ scientific applications. The event also included Q&A, student lightning talks, and a visualization contest.
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New commodity supercomputing clusters deployed at NNSA labs claim Top500 spots
The debut of the NNSA Commodity Technology Systems-2 computing clusters Dane and Bengal on the Top500 List of the world’s most powerful supercomputers brings the total of LLNL-sited systems on the list to 11, the most of any supercomputing center in the world.
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SC23 event calendar
LLNL is participating in the 35th annual Supercomputing Conference (SC23), which will be held both virtually and in Denver on November 12–17, 2023.
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Data Days brings DOE labs together for discussions on data management and more
Data researchers, developers, data managers, and program managers from national laboratories visited LLNL to discuss the latest in data management, sharing, and accessibility at the 2023 DOE Data Days (D3) workshop.
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LLNL’s Kailkhura elevated to IEEE senior member
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest technical professional organization, has elevated LLNL staff member Bhavya Kailkhura to the grade of senior member within the organization.
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LLNL continues to expand Girls Who Code outreach
Lawrence Livermore is celebrating nearly a decade of bringing the Girls Who Code program to local middle and high schools. Since standing up the effort in 2016, more than 900 students have participated in the clubs, and the offerings continue to expand.