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LLNL team wins SC21 Reproducibility Advancement Award
SC21's inaugural Best Reproducibility Advancement Award went to an LLNL team for a benchmark suite aimed at simplifying the evaluation process of approximation techniques for scientific applications.
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SC21 event calendar
LLNL is participating in the 33rd annual Supercomputing Conference (SC21), which will be held both virtually and in St. Louis on November 14–19, 2021.
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MFEM team hosts first community workshop
The MFEM software library provides high-order mathematical algorithms for large-scale scientific simulations. An October workshop brought together MFEM’s global user and developer community for the first time.
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DOE to showcase national lab expertise at SC21
“We’re very excited about the program content. It’s going to be one of the best SC programs ever,” said SC21 General Chair Bronis R. de Supinski, chief technology officer for Livermore Computing at LLNL.
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Video: 55+ years in high performance computing
In this IDEAS-ECP webinar, Jean Shuler, who joined LLNL in 1972, shares her stories providing support on a range of computing architectures. The video is an hour long.
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LLNL uses ML to derive black hole motion from gravitational waves
An LLNL mathematician and collaborators have developed a machine learning–based technique capable of deriving a mathematical model for the motion of binary black holes from gravitational wave data.
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Using supercomputers to optimize hot rolling for the steels of tomorrow
In a project with U.S. Steel, LLNL computational physicists built models of the hot-rolling process to run on LLNL’s HPC platforms.
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Just DO IT: new internship program introduces students to DevOps
Computing’s newest internship program focuses on DevOps methodologies. The inaugural class of 2021 built a persistent data services provisioning application that will soon assist real Livermore Computing users.
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Video: Exascale Day playlist
The DOE's Exascale Computing Project compiled a video playlist for Exascale Day on October 18 (1018).
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Flux software wins 2021 R&D 100 Award
The renowned worldwide competition announced the winners of the 2021 R&D 100 Awards, among them LLNL's Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.
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LLNL joins Human Vaccines Project to accelerate vaccine development
LLNL will lend its expertise in vaccine research and computing resources to the Human Vaccines Project consortium to aid development of a universal coronavirus vaccine and improve understanding of immune response.
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Early access systems at LLNL mark progress toward El Capitan
Though the arrival of the exascale supercomputer El Capitan at LLNL is still almost two years away, teams of code developers are busy working on predecessor systems to ensure critical applications are ready for Day One.
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LLNL prepares for exascale with massive energy and water upgrade
To prepare for the next generation of power-hungry supercomputers, LLNL crews have been working throughout the pandemic on a $100 million Exascale Computing Facility Modernization project.
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Updated exascale system for earth simulations
A new version of the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) is 2x faster than its earlier version released in 2018.
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Data Science Challenge welcomes UC Riverside
CASC and the Data Science Institute welcomed a new academic partner to the 2021 Data Science Challenge program: the University of California Riverside campus.
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GHC21: Grace Hopper Celebration
Many LLNL women and allies attend Grace Hopper Celebration every year to learn, to network, and to be inspired.
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NNSA taps Dell to provide computing resources for stockpile stewardship
LLNL and partners have awarded a subcontract to Dell Technologies for additional supercomputing systems to support the NNSA's nuclear deterrent mission.
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Video: HPC speeds up computational biology and drug design
Computational biology is using HPC to rapidly design and develop ways to treat cancer and COVID. LLNL researcher Felice Lightstone discusses ATOM (Accelerated Therapeutic Opportunities in Medicine) in this edition of SC21 TV.
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Lab-led effort one of nine DOE-funded data reduction projects
An LLNL-led effort in data compression was one of nine projects recently funded by the DOE for research aimed at shrinking the amount of data needed to advance scientific discovery.
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Inaugural industry forum inspires ML community
LLNL held its first-ever Machine Learning for Industry Forum (ML4I) on August 10–12, co-hosted by the Lab’s High-Performance Computing Innovation Center and Data Science Institute.
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DOE-funded project to advance portability of heterogeneous HPC applications
A newly funded project involving LLNL computer scientist Ignacio Laguna will examine numerical aspects of porting scientific applications to different HPC platforms.
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Latest S&TR issue highlights VisIt
The Livermore-led VisIt visualization and analysis tool has supported scalable, high-quality evaluation of simulation results for over 20 years.
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60 years of cancer research
From studying radioactive isotope effects to better understanding cancer metastasis, the Laboratory’s relationship with cancer research endures some 60 years after it began, with historical precedent underpinning exciting new research areas.
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Flux software selected among R&D 100 Awards finalists
The renowned worldwide competition announced the finalists for the 2021 R&D 100 Awards, among them LLNL's Flux workload management software framework in the Software/Services category.
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Video: How to Spack a software package
At the AWS/Arm Cloud Hackathon, Todd Gamblin and Greg Becker discuss the essential skills and concepts needed to understand how to create and deploy Spack recipes to build scientific codes.
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