LLNL Computing’s ground-breaking research and development activities, innovative technologies, and world-class staff are often featured in various media outlets.
Source: LLNL News
LLNL cancer research goes exascale
An LLNL team will be among the first researchers to perform work on the world’s first exascale supercomputer—Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Frontier—when they use the system to model cancer-causing protein mutations.
AI/ML Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science Data Science Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
Source: Data Science Institute
Panel discussion spotlights COVID-19 R&D
The Data Science Institute's career panel series continued on June 28 with a discussion of LLNL’s COVID-19 research and development. Four data scientists talked about their work in drug screening, protein–drug compounds, antibody–antigen sequence analysis, and risk factor identification.
Bioinformatics Biology/Biomedicine Careers Computational Science Data Science
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UC Merced students work with LLNL mentors on potential new drugs to combat COVID-19
For the first time in the DSC series since the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Lab mentors visited the college campus to provide in-person guidance for five teams of UC Merced students.
Biology/Biomedicine Computational Science Data Science Students
Source: Science & Technology Review
Assured and robust…or bust
Livermore’s machine learning experts aim to provide assurances on performance and enable trust in machine-learning technology through innovative validation and verification techniques.
Source: The Next Platform
Lawrence Livermore's El Capitan to take AMD’s Instinct APU mainstream
The Lab's upcoming exascale-capable supercomputer will see an implementation of a converged accelerated computing unit, or APU, hybrid CPU-GPU compute engine.
Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous
Source: HPCwire
AMD’s MI300 APUs to power exascale El Capitan supercomputer
In a presentation delivered to the 79th HPC User Forum at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, LLNL's Terri Quinn revealed that AMD’s forthcoming MI300 APU would be the computational bedrock of El Capitan, which is slated for installation at LLNL in late 2023.
Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous
Source: LLNL News
NNSA Administrator Hruby dedicates LLNL’s computing facility upgrade
The utility-grade infrastructure project massively upgraded the power and water-cooling capacity of the adjacent Livermore Computing Center, preparing it to house next generation exascale-class supercomputers for NNSA.
Emerging Architectures HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous
Source: LLNL News
Multi-lab High Performance Storage System collaboration marks 30 years of data storage
After 30 years, the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) collaboration continues to lead and adapt to the needs of the time while honoring its primary mission of long-term data stewardship of the crown jewels of data for government, academic and commercial organizations around the world.
Collaborations HPC Systems and Software Storage, File Systems, and I/O
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Video: Celebrating 30 years of the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) collaboration
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) collaboration, comprising five DOE HPC national laboratories: LLNL, Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Sandia, along with industry partner IBM.
Multimedia Storage, File Systems, and I/O HPC Systems and Software Collaborations
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Brase discusses advances by ATOM in accelerating drug discovery pipeline
The Accelerating Therapeutic Opportunities in Medicine (ATOM) consortium is showing “significant” progress in demonstrating that HPC and machine learning tools can speed up the drug discovery process, ATOM co-lead Jim Brase said at a recent webinar.
AI/ML Biology/Biomedicine Collaborations Computational Science Data Science
Source: Science & Technology Review
Delivering exceptional promise: Early and mid-career recognition award recipients
The latest issue of the Lab's Science & Technology Review magazine highlights Todd Gamblin among other EMCR Program awardees.
Awards Careers HPC Systems and Software Software Build and Installation
Source: LLNL News
El Capitan testbed systems rank among top 200 of world’s most powerful computers
As the U.S. welcomed the world’s first “true” exascale supercomputer, three predecessor machines for LLNL's future exascale system El Capitan managed to rank highly on the latest Top500 List of the world’s most powerful supercomputers.
Emerging Architectures Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous
Source: LLNL News
LLNL and Amazon Web Services to cooperate on standardized software stack for HPC
LLNL and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have signed a memorandum of understanding to define the role of leadership-class HPC in a future where cloud HPC is ubiquitous.
Cloud Services Co-Design Collaborations HPC Systems and Software Information Technology Open-Source Software Software Applications Software Build and Installation Software Engineering
Source: LLNL Computing
CASC team wins best paper at visualization symposium
Winning the best paper award at PacificVis 2022, a research team has developed a resolution-precision-adaptive representation technique that reduces mesh sizes, thereby reducing the memory and storage footprints of large scientific datasets.
AI/ML Awards Computational Math Data Compression Data Movement and Memory Data Science Discrete Mathematics HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software
Source: LLNL Computing
IPDPS 2022 event calendar
LLNL participates in the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) on May 30 through June 3.
AI/ML Computational Math Data Science Events HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Programming Languages and Models Resource and Workflow Management Storage, File Systems, and I/O
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ISC22 event calendar
LLNL participates in the ISC High Performance Conference (ISC22) on May 29 through June 2.
Compiler Technology Debugging and Correctness Emerging Architectures Events HPC Systems and Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Programming Languages and Models Resource and Workflow Management Software Build and Installation
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HPCIC webinar series to highlight industry engagement and research
LLNL and the United Kingdom’s Hartree Centre are launching a new webinar series intended to spur collaboration with industry through discussions on computational science, HPC, and data science.
Collaborations Data Science Events HPC Systems and Software Outreach
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LLNL honored as a top STEM workplace by AISES ‘Winds of Change’ Magazine
The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Winds of Change magazine has named LLNL as one of the Top 50 STEM Workplaces in 2022. This marks the second consecutive year that LLNL has been honored as an organization setting the standard for indigenous STEM professionals.
Source: LLNL News
NNSA and Cornelis Networks to collaborate on next-gen high performance networking
Technologies developed through the Next-Generation High Performance Computing Network project are expected to support mission-critical applications for HPC, AI and ML, and high performance data analytics.
AI/ML Co-Design Collaborations Data Science HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software
Source: Exascale Computing Project
Join ECP birds-of-a-feather days on May 10-12
The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) 2022 Community Birds-of-a-Feather Days will take place May 10–12 via Zoom. The event provides an opportunity for the HPC community to engage with ECP teams to discuss our latest development efforts.
Computational Math Data Management Data Science Events Exascale HPC Architectures HPC Systems and Software Hybrid/Heterogeneous Open-Source Software Performance, Portability, and Productivity Programming Languages and Models Software Build and Installation Solvers Storage, File Systems, and I/O
Source: Science & Technology Review
Shining a light on technical excellence
LLNL's DMTS awards program offers advancement for scientific leaders who choose the research track over the management ladder. Read more about computational mathematician Rob Falgout.
Source: LLNL News
Livermore WiDS provides forum for women in data science
LLNL celebrated the 2022 Global Women in Data Science conference on March 7 with its 5th annual regional event, featuring workshops, mentoring sessions and a discussion with LLNL Director Kim Budil.
Source: Data Science Institute
Winter hackathon meets WiDS datathon
Sponsored by the DSI, LLNL’s winter hackathon took place on February 16–17. In addition to traditional hacking, the hackathon included a special datathon competition in anticipation of the Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference on March 7.
Source: Exascale Computing Project
The Flux supercomputing workload manager
The Livermore Computing–developed Flux project addresses challenges posed by complex scientific research supercomputing workflows.
Exascale HPC Systems and Software Open-Source Software Resource and Workflow Management
Source: Data Science Institute
WiDS Livermore returns on March 7
Registration is open until February 27 for LLNL's fifth annual WiDS event in conjunction with the worldwide Women in Data Science conference.