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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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.
Awards Careers Compiler Technology HPC Systems and Software Software Engineering
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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.
Source: Science & Technology Review
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.
Collaborations HPC Systems and Software Storage, File Systems, and I/O
Source: Science & Technology Review
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.
Source: HPCwire
Supercomputing’s critical role in the fusion ignition breakthrough
High performance computing was key to the December 5 breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility.
AI/ML Algorithms at Scale Computational Science Data Science HPC Systems and Software Lasers and Optics Scientific ML
Source: insideHPC
Due credit: Sierra, Jade and HPC’s role in Livermore’s fusion ignition breakthrough
Two supercomputers powered the research of hundreds of scientists at Livermore’s NNSA National Ignition Facility, which recently achieved ignition.
AI/ML Algorithms at Scale Computational Science Data Science HPC Systems and Software Lasers and Optics Scientific ML
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National Ignition Facility achieves fusion ignition
The major scientific breakthrough decades in the making will pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean power.
Source: Sandia National Lab
Sandia, Intel seek novel memory tech to support stockpile mission
ASC’s Advanced Memory Technology research projects are developing technologies that will impact future computer system architectures for complex modeling and simulation workloads.
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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.
Biology/Biomedicine Collaborations Computational Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Open-Source Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Resource and Workflow Management Scientific Cloud Computing
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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.
AI/ML Biology/Biomedicine Co-Design Collaborations Compiler Technology Computational Math Computational Science Computer Vision Data Science Deep Learning Discrete Mathematics Exascale HPC Systems and Software Natural Language Processing Open-Source Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Programming Languages and Models
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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.
AI/ML CogSim/AI/ML Hardware Data Science Emerging Architectures Open-Source Software Scientific ML
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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.
Data Compression Data Movement and Memory Data Science Debugging and Correctness Emerging Architectures Events Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Outreach Performance, Portability, and Productivity Programming Languages and Models Quantum Computing Resource and Workflow Management Software Build and Installation
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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.
Awards Computational Math ODE Methods Open-Source Software Solvers
Source: Science & Technology Review
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.
Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
Source: Science & Technology Review
Optimizing workflow with Flux
The latest issue of Science & Technology Review highlights the R&D 100 award–winning Flux software framework.
HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software Resource and Workflow Management
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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.
Source: LLNL Computing
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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