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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ML model instantly predicts polymer properties
LLNL researchers have developed a novel machine learning (ML) model that can predict 10 distinct polymer properties more accurately than was possible with previous ML models.
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LLNL staff returns to Texas-sized Supercomputing Conference
The 2022 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC22) returned to Dallas as a large contingent of LLNL staff participated in sessions, panels, paper presentations and workshops centered around HPC.
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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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Researchers win HPCwire award for applying cognitive simulation to inertial confinement fusion
The award recognizes progress in the team's ML-based approach to modeling ICF experiments, which has led to the creation of faster and more accurate models of ICF implosions.
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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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First-ever LLNL career fair overflows with applicants
The Lab's first-ever on-site career fair was a resounding success, with more than 500 people attending the onsite event to learn about career opportunities.
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SUNDIALS team wins prestigious SIAM/ACM Prize
The prestigious award is handed out every two years and recognizes outstanding contributions to the development and use of mathematical and computational tools and methods for the solution of science and engineering problems.
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Charging up and rolling out
Science & Technology Review highlights the Exascale Computing Facility Modernization project that delivered the infrastructure required to bring exascale computing online in 2023.
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Optimizing workflow with Flux
The latest issue of Science & Technology Review highlights the R&D 100 award–winning Flux software framework.
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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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Test of Time awards at 2022 IEEE VIS conference
Two LLNL-led teams received SciVis Test of Time awards at the 2022 IEEE VIS conference for papers that have achieved lasting relevancy in the field of scientific visualization.
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Project co-led at LLNL looks to improve visualization of large-scale datasets
Researchers are starting a three-year project aimed at improving methods for visual analysis of large heterogeneous datasets as part of a recent DOE funding opportunity.
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LLNL scientists eagerly anticipate El Capitan’s potential impact
While LLNL awaits the arrival of El Capitan, physicists and computer scientists running scientific applications on testbeds are getting a taste of what to expect.
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Video: ECP's Exascale Day playlist
The Exascale Computing Project has compiled a playlist of videos from multiple national labs to highlight the impacts of exascale computing.
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LLNL celebrates making the impossible possible during 70th anniversary event
Employees gathered for the Lab’s first-ever Employee Engagement Day, held Oct. 11. The event featured food, drink, informative displays, historical films and more.
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Climate change threatens supercomputers
Climate change can bring not only heat, but also increased humidity, reducing the efficiency of the evaporative coolers many HPC centers rely on.
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DOE funds LLNL project to improve differentiation of extreme-scale science apps
Researchers will address the challenge of efficiently differentiating large-scale applications for the DOE by building on advances in LLNL’s MFEM finite element library and MIT’s Enzyme AD tool.
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ESGF launches effort to upgrade climate projection data system
The Earth System Grid Federation, a multi-agency initiative that gathers and distributes data for top-tier projections of the Earth’s climate, is preparing a series of upgrades to make using the data easier and faster while improving how the information is curated.
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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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Video: Exascale Computing Facility Modernization project
Preparing the Livermore Computing Center for El Capitan and the exascale era of supercomputers required an entirely new way of thinking about the facility’s mechanical and electrical capabilities.
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The people of stockpile stewardship are the key to LLNL’s success
The third article in a series about the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission highlights the people who make it happen.
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Scientific discovery for stockpile stewardship
The second article in a series about the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission highlights computational models, parallel architectures, and data science techniques.
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Developing technology to keep the nuclear stockpile safe, secure, and reliable
The first article in a series about the Lab's stockpile stewardship mission highlights the roles of computer simulations and exascale computing.
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LLNL to cooperate with University of Utah's one oneAPI Center of Excellence
The new oneAPI Center of Excellence will involve the Center for Applied Scientific Computing and accelerate ZFP compression software to advance exascale computing.
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