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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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.
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LLNL hosts thousands of enthusiastic explorers for Open House 2023
Nearly 19,000 employees and guests visited LLNL’s Open House 2023 on Oct. 21 and 22: an unprecedented crowd witnessing the Lab’s innovative science and technology up close.
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‘STEM Day at the Lab’ returns
LLNL welcomed more than 145 students from the Bay Area to ‘STEM Day at the Lab’ on October 6. STEM Day is a biannual daylong interactive event focused on STEM activities for students (grades 5-8) from underserved or disadvantaged communities.
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S&TR highlight: High performance postdocs
In recent years, the Lab has boosted its recruiting profile even further by offering the prestigious Sidney Fernbach Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Computing Sciences. The fellowship fosters creative partnerships between new and experienced scientists. In short, it ensures an annual cycle that refreshes advanced research in computer sciences at the Lab.
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Video: How LLNL’s exascale supercomputer came to be
Over several years, teams have prepared the infrastructure for El Capitan, designing and building the computing facility’s upgrades for power and cooling, installing storage and compute components and connecting everything together. Once all the pieces are in place, the life of El Cap as world-class supercomputer begins.
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Alpine/ZFP addresses analysis, visualization, data reduction needs for exascale science applications
The Data and Visualization efforts in the DOE’s Exascale Computing Project provide an ecosystem of capabilities for data management, analysis, lossy compression, and visualization.
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Robust verification of control system enables NIF software updates
NIF Computing deploys regular updates to its computer control systems to ensure NIF continues to achieve ignition.
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Meeting of the minds: advanced math for the exascale era
Hosted at LLNL, the Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations’ annual event featured breakout discussions, more than two dozen speakers, and an evening of bocce ball.
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ECP co-design center wraps up seven years of collaboration
The Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations has developed innovative mathematical algorithms for the DOE’s next generation of supercomputers.
Co-Design Collaborations Computational Math Discrete Mathematics Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Systems and Software Mathematical Optimization Open-Source Software PDE Methods Performance, Portability, and Productivity Proxy Apps Software Engineering
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Road to El Capitan 2: All the moving parts
Siting a supercomputer requires close coordination of hardware, software, applications, and Livermore Computing facilities.
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Road to El Capitan 3: The right operating system
The Tri-Lab Operating System Stack (TOSS) ensures other national labs’ supercomputing needs are met.
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Road to El Capitan 5: A framework for complex workflows
Flux, next-generation resource and job management software, steps up to support emerging use cases.
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Road to El Capitan 1: It takes a village
Livermore Computing is making significant progress toward siting the NNSA’s first exascale supercomputer.
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Road to El Capitan 4: Storage in the exascale era
Innovative hardware provides near-node local storage alongside large-capacity storage.
Co-Design Collaborations Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Open-Source Software Storage, File Systems, and I/O
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Summer hackathon addresses Lab's many acronyms, plus other projects (SHALMA-POP)
This season’s hackathon featured Lab improvement projects, work tasks, and personal enrichment.
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Explainable artificial intelligence can enhance scientific workflows
Using explainable artificial intelligence techniques can help increase the reach of machine learning applications in materials science, making the process of designing new materials much more efficient.
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VisIt project team adds color usability improvements
The Lab’s workhorse visualization tool provides expanded color map features, including for visually impaired users.
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CASC Newsletter | Vol 13 | July 2023
This issue highlights some of CASC’s contributions to making controlled laboratory fusion possible at the National Ignition Facility.
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Developer Day returns, in person and squeakier than ever
2023’s Developer Day was a two-day event for the first time, balancing an all-virtual technical program with a fully in-person networking day.
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Improving models of clouds and atmospheric turbulence
With simple mathematical modifications to a common model of clouds and turbulence, LLNL scientists and their collaborators helped minimize nonphysical results.
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Investigation of disaggregated memory systems wins poster award
Splitting memory resources in HPC between local nodes and a larger shared remote pool can help better support computational applications.
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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.
Awards Compiler Technology HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software
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ISC23 event calendar
LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC23) on May 21–25.
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